News Around the Net!
This substantive look at the upcoming X-Files revival has me giddy with anticipation. Please don’t let me down, Chris Carter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SmJUBT5q0
I’ve learned over the years not to trust trailers, but holy cow this trailer for the new Coen Brothers film looks AMAZING. Check it out:
I’m loving this new trailer for Season Two of Star Wars: Rebels. Season One was OK, but the episode with Darth Vader that aired over the summer made me a true believer. Can’t wait for what’s next.
This is fun: seven things that you (probably) didn’t know about Who Framed Roger Rabbit. (I love that movie!!)
This is an amazing, in-depth interview with the great Richard Kind, digging deeply into many of the best roles he has played throughout his career, up-to and including Bing Bong in Inside Out. Once you’re done reading that, then may I suggest you clear your schedule and enjoy this two-hour conversation with Mr. Kind from Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show:
You’re welcome.
Marvel just added another film to Phase III (am I correct that this means that Phase III will consist of TEN films? That is incredible.) — Ant Man and the Wasp! Love that Ant Man (click here for my review) is getting a sequel, and I love that title. (Marvel also has announced three un-named films for release in 2020. Presumably those three films will be the start of Phase Four? I love that Marvel is planning so far ahead.) (And what is to be made of the rumors that Marvel is going to drop The Inhumans from their Phase III slate, as a middle-finger towards the Marvel TV folks, now separated from the film division of Marvel Studios? That is being denied by Marvel, but I wonder. I wrote recently about my concerns that all the recent behind-the-scenes changes at Marvel Studios have not all been for the better. It will probably be several years before we see how this all plays out and we’re able to get a true sense of the repercussions of these moves. I still have faith in Marvel Studios. I don’t want that to change!!)
Brad Bird’s The Incredibles 2 also now has an official release date!! Fifteen years is a long time to wait for a sequel, but I have faith in Brad Bird (despite the stumble that was Tomorrowland) and can’t wait to see what he is cooking up.
This is an interesting short piece on the monologue that Jonathan Nolan wrote for Christian Bale to deliver for use in the first trailer for Batman Begins.
So the 70mm version of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie The Hateful Eight will be six minutes longer than the standard multiplex version? Holy cow. This extended version will be three hours and two minutes long! I am drooling at the prospect of over three hours of new Tarantino on the horizon.
This is cute, a very well-edited two-minute montage of the many ways that imagery from the Star Wars prequels echoed images from the Original Trilogy:
Star Wars Poetry from whoispablo on Vimeo.
There’s no question that there is some beautiful imagery in the prequels. Wish the stories didn’t stink so badly. C’mon J.J., I really want to be able to see a great new Star Wars movie in theatres once more in my lifetime. Let’s make it happen this December, OK?