Have You Seen The New Warrior Poster?

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Via Glenn at Stale Popcorn who tells it like it is:

"Yeah, our movie is probably shit, but we have sexy Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy with their shirts off exposing their - let's be blunt - incredible bodies and looking all hot and stuff and now you're gonna see it anyway."

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Baz Picked Joel

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We heard the other day that the role of Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's apparently 3D Great Gatsby movie was up between recent-gratuity-recipient Aussie Joel Edgerton and the Heterosexual Welshman Luke Evans; well Baz went for his home-boy and Joel got the part. He's the flavor of the moment! Him and Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender, ohhhhh my. 

Hmm... now there's a Do Dump or Marry for ya...

Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender... well?

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I Am Link

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--- The Lovers, The Dreamers - You can see a photograph of the poster for The Greatest Muppet Movie Made over at AICN, along with word that one of the original songs written for the film is already making grown men burst into tears. Hooray! November 23rd can't get here soon enough.

--- Sob Story - Hooray for praise of Barbara Hershey's performance in Beaches at The Film Experience! Her work really was overshadowed by her lip injections at the time; cornball lady-hysteria aside, she's wonderful in the movie. It makes me short of breath just thinking about the scene where she collapses for the first time, so well does she sell the sickness.

--- The Kings Layer - I haven't watched last night's Game of Thrones yet but I hear there was lots of gratuitousness right up my alley to behold so I'm looking forward to it. For now, we can read this interview from this past Friday at PopWrap with the Kingslayer himself, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau.

--- I See A Samuel - Over at Stale Popcorn, Glenn takes a look at some movie called Road Train, and by "takes a look at" I means posts several pictures of its star Xavier Samuel, last seen by me in 2010's best horror movie The Loved Ones, looking mighty fine.

--- Coop On Chris - Over at Low Resolution, Joe lists the eventual blockbusters still coming out this Summer in order of preference. Special shout-out to the never-stops-being-completely-hysterical shot of Dominic Cooper checking out Chris Evans' pecs in the Captain America trailer is given. Word.

--- Wood Man - It went through about thirty different actors hands, but Snow White and the Huntsman finally has its Huntsman - Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth will star opposite Kristen Stewart as SW and Charlize Theron as the Wicked Queen. I've avoided the Twilight movies like the plague so I don't necessarily dislike Kristen Stewart, but I'm still hoping with those stars attached that Hemsworth and Theron toss her out a window and end the film in each other's arms. Because that'd be HOT.

--- A New Riding - I guess if anybody could maybe make a coherent script for a remake of the terrific British TV trilogy Red Riding, I guess it could be the guy who wrote Zodiac, with its thousand characters and dangling strands. I say they rehire Andrew Garfield for it! And then make him walk around in his little underpants again.

--- Just Josh - Josh Duhamel's signed on for a couple of movies, and this will be the last time you'll hear me mention either of them until the pictures of him with his clothes off in said movies arrive.

--- More Monsters - The original director Gareth Edwards will only produce, he's busy trying to make that Godzilla movie, but a sequel to last year's cost-nothing success Monsters is gonna get made. One of the other producers says they'll be making "much more of a straight genre picture" and "upping the ante," so basically they're planning on canceling out everything that made the first film unique. Mkay.

--- Canadian Idol - Ryan Gosling is becoming a director. I guess we should've seen this coming. He's set to star in and direct a remake of Taylor Hackford's 1980 film The Idolmaker, about the rock n' roll promoter Bob Marcucci, who discovered Frankie Avalon.

--- Pretty Vacuum - Kellan Lutz, Shiloh Fernandez, and Amber Heard are going to star in a movie together. I mean, I'm not sure if it'll be the sheer force of prettiness or the vacuum of the absence of acting skills that'll destroy the world when this happens, but it'll be one of those two. Perhaps the union?

--- Two Tom Cats - Joel Edgerton - see his recent gratuitous post here - and Luke Evans, who is totally 100% straight or something, are both up for the role Ben Affleck almost took, Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.

--- And finally, have you seen the original ending to Alexander Payne's Election yet? (via Slash) It's terrible. Terrible! It might be the best example I've ever seen of test audiences working out for the best, because the ending they actually came up with for the finished film is about twenty-thousand times better than this.

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This Is Joel Edgerton's Day

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I used up all my pictures of him in my previous gratuitous post, eek! That one'll just have to do. Anyway no sooner had I hit post for that one then I saw this news at the LAT:

Joel Edgerton signs on for Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden movie

Australian Joel Edgerton will play a special operative in the picture, said two sources familiar with the project who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss it. The actor will be part of an ensemble of male commandos.

Edgerton, who has been short-listed for a number of high-profile roles recently (including one of the leads in "The Hunger Games" and the Bourne reboot), passed on the opportunity to work opposite Kristen Stewart in "Snow White and the Huntsman" to climb aboard the Bin Laden film.

Okay, that's cool about the Bigelow movie but what's this about The Hunger Games? Who the hell would he play? MTV speculates Haymitch or President Snow, but I dunno about that. Hrm. Ideas?

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Gratuitous Joel Edgerton

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Well this seems overdue, doesn't it? We've been enamored with Joel Edgerton since he took his top off and rocked a beard like nobody's business in Animal Kingdom (my review)...



... but his name was popping up around here well before that, mostly due to The Thing remake. (Where the heck is that anyway? October 14th my foot, it's been done for ages. I saw him promoting it at ComiCon last year.) Aussie readers have known Edgerton for much longer, and looking through his credits I see he was in two of the Star Wars prequels? Those things are such a blur, I have no idea. He and his brother also co-wrote the wonderful thriller The Square (my review), which you should seek out if you haven't already seen it. Before The Thing remake supposedly comes out well also see him in Warrior in September, that ultimate fighter movie with Tom Hardy.

You can see worth-looking-at screen-caps from that trailer here. 

Yadda yadda let's stare at Joel now.

An Epic Week of Beefcakery

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Three makes it epic, right? First we got Ryan Gosling's pec-riddled trailer for Crazy Stupid Love. Then we got Joe Gordon-Levitt prancing around in his boy panties in the Hesher trailer. And now comes the trailer for The Fighter 2: Now With Kicking, aka Warrior, starring Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy as brothers who never wear shirts and almost make out with each other. Jackpot! Can we have an Immortals trailer next? Can we, can we???

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