Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

It was quite upsetting to read an un-blogged about story on how The Farrelly Brothers had finally passed on doing a Three Stooges biopic to go onto an Owen Wilson starring comedy called Hall Pass. Now we can rejoice that Sean Penn has come out of his short-lived retirement, as The Boston Herald has posted that the actor has expressed interest in playing Larry Fine again. I still think that the original rumor of Penn's replacement, Paul Giamatti, would be a better choice, but if anything, this will give the film more exposure. I'm also still not exactly sold on Benecio del Toro playing the part of Moe Howard, but my final decision of if this will be great or terrible weighs on the eventual casting news of Curly.

I am still deciding on what level of douchebaggery it would register if I purchased some old favorites on Blu-ray. Courtesy of a CHUD post, my decision may be made slightly easier, as the Back to the Future trilogy is being released on a new special five disc collection, which among other things will include a brand new short film, Jaws 19 in 3-D, the film seen in the background of Back to the Future Part II. Awesome, the way 3-D was intended to be used, a gimmicky accessory to the films we find great, not a medium to itself.

I am happy to pass along an article from The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog, announcing that Sam Mendes will take the director's chair on the 23rd James Bond film, third in the reboot franchise with Daniel Craig portraying the suave spy. I think it will be interesting to see what the director of American Beauty can do with something as action packed as the Bond series, especially following in the footsteps of the transformation after Casino Royale. Still, most of my excitement isn't even really directed towards the Bond series at all, but because it dispels rumors that the series would be put on hiatus due to MGM's financial woes, which was also rumored to have put a wrench on the cogs on the preproduction of The Hobbit. Maybe this positive sign will continue along and get the J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation underway.

And finally, where we would be anymore without mention of James Cameron's Avatar in a post. Geekologie passed along a link to a forum to help those of us suffering from the realization that we will never see Pandora. This is obviously fake, but I find it disturbing that this is somehow getting the weirdness of Twilight fandom popping up here and there.