"Daddy says the Bible's a load of bunkum!"

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"I think you're the fucking Antichrist."

I Am Link

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--- Dino Might - Seems like it's every six months or so that we get some fresh Jurassic Park rumor-mongering - June of 2011 has Spielberg meeting with a writer to discuss possibilities or whatever. Seems to me this shouldn't be so damned hard - put some dinosaurs on an island, have humans visit said island, and go. Instant movie. As long as there's no strapping laser guns to dinosaur heads we're fine.

--- Cue The Freaks - The Last Circus, the new horror film from Alex de la Iglesia - see a "Ways Not To Die" ode to his 1995 bizzaro movie The Day of the Beast here - has got a trailer and you can watch it at Twitch Hopefully we'll get to see it here in the US somehow.
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--- Easy Being Green - Ryan Reynolds looks pretty darn adorable on the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly, eh? Too bad his movie's being savaged by the critics. Well not really "too bad," I mean I think the pretty boy can take it since he cashed his check awhile ago, no doubt. Probably in between his 485th and 486th sit-up of the day.

--- Labor Pains - Kate Winslet's signed on for Jason Reitman's next movie, opposite Josh Brolin - it's called Labor Day and the basic plot description is so generic, so been-there, it makes me anxious:

"Winslet will play a single mother of an awkward and isolated young son who takes in a stranger. He turns out to be an escaped convict and ends up teaches the boy life lessons, while she falls in love with him over the course of Labor Day Weekend."

It has to be more interesting that that sounds, right? Anyone read the book? Hey if it's got Kate I'll watch it, I just want good things for her, is all.
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--- War's The Pitts - STYD has got some shots from the set of World War Z, the adaptation of Max Brooks' zombie-apocalypse book that's finally getting made after a few years of yap. There's nothing much to see yet, but that nice look at the length of Brad Pitt there demands I at least link.

--- Vaguely Barsoomian - The LAT got to talk to John Carter (I'm really missing the "Of Mars" in this movie's title) director Andrew Stanton about how things are going with that film, which we saw the first (nippleless) poster from yesterday. They also got a couple pieces of concept art, which aren't altogether that thrilling but I'm sharing anyway. The top one's reminding me of the rainbow bridge from Thor, kinda?

I Am Link

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--- Hi Oh Hammer - Six foot five Aryan God Armie Hammer (he should probably make that his full name) is probably gonna play The Lone Ranger, opposite an inevitably hammy Johnny Depp as Tonto who will probably be wearing a clown wig and buck teeth to fully form his "quirky" take on the character. Good luck with all that, Armie.

 

--- Heavenly Lady - How great is this reminiscence by acting-phenom Melanie Lynskey on her time making Heavenly Creatures with Peter Jackson and Kate Winslet that The Film Experience posted? Love it.

--- Lady Dictator - I was going to do a poll for yall to tell me who you'd rather see get the role of female lead in Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie - it's a real Sophie's Choice between Kristin Wiig and Anna Faris (oh and also some other chick I don't know) - but... didn't. So feel free to tell me in the comments. The movie's called The Dictator and is about a dictator (surprise) who "risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed." Now word on who the lady'd be playing - presumably the bright shining light of femininity that brings him to his senses, or whatever. 

--- Petty Man - I noticed just yesterday thata Alex Pettyfer had a tag with his name on it here at MNPP, and I thought to myself, "Huh, that was probably a bad idea." So I'm gonna cover him whenever just to make up for that, since his movies are an endless string of flops and nobody on Earth seems to like him. Here's some asshole quotes from him and a couple new pictures. I gotta say that now that he's revealing his inner prick he's kinda growing on me. Since he's not playing anybody in The Hunger Games I've been able to unclench.

--- Death Days Sooner - Final Destination 5's release date has been moved ahead two weeks, to August 12th. Unless it's also changed that's the same day that the Don't Be Afraid of the Dark remake produced by Guillermo Del Toro comes out. Horrorpalooza!

--- And finally, here's a letter that a fourteen-year old Stephen King wrote to Monsters of Filmland Magazine's editor Forrest J. Ackerman back in 1961. This is what the internet was made for, the preservation and distribution of this specific kind of awesomeness.

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