OMG! It looks like MTV has managed to get their hands on a couple of shots of Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and new cast member Benedict Cumberbatch from the set of Star Trek: Nothing to do with Khan. Now I must go hyperventilate. Via The Mary Sue.
OMG! It looks like MTV has managed to get their hands on a couple of shots of Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and new cast member Benedict Cumberbatch from the set of Star Trek: Nothing to do with Khan. Now I must go hyperventilate. Via The Mary Sue.
It's probably just some Smallville fan who can't let go (despite the series finale that must never be mentioned) and who therefore went on IMDB and created this page for something called Metropolis that will never happen. No, it wasn't me. I was too busy writing Supernatural fan fiction to have had the time. But, good guess.
Thank you, non-existent entity in the sky. It sounds like he's done with the fat suits.
"After years of near-silence, Eddie Murphy gives a rare extensive print interview in the new issue of Rolling Stone. In the Q&A, Murphy opens up to senior writer Brian Hiatt about the ups and downs of his long career, his possible return to stand-up, his Oscar hosting plans and much more. Murphy, who co-stars in the upcoming Tower Heist, is baffled by his reputation as a near-recluse: "I leave my house all the time," he says. "But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home... If I were out in the clubs every night, they'd be saying, 'That's a shame, look at him, 50 years old, he's still out at these clubs.' Recluses are nasty, with long nails, don't wash their ass... I'm too vain to be a recluse. But homebody, absolutely. I'm 50 years old, beautiful house, I'm supposed to be home, chilling."
Other highlights from the story:
• Murphy says that his days of making family movies may be over. "I don't have any interest in that right now," he says. "There's really no blueprint, but I'm trying to do some edgy stuff. And I only want to do what I really want to do, otherwise I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day. I always tell people now that I'm a semi-retired gentleman of leisure, and occasionally I'll go do some work to break the boredom up."
• Murphy has decided not to make Beverly Hills Cop IV. "They're not doing it," he says. "What I'm trying to do now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley's son, and Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit. I'd do the pilot, show up here and there. None of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force the premise. If you have to force something, you shouldn't be doing it. It was always a rehash of the old thing. It was always wrong."
• Unlike other Saturday Night Live alumni, Murphy has refused to participate in retrospectives and hasn't been on the show in years – but he's gotten over his grudge. "They were bleepy to me on Saturday Night Live a couple of times after I'd left the show," he says. "They said some bleepy things. There was that David Spade sketch [when Spade showed a picture of Murphy around the time of Vampire In Brooklyn and said, 'Look, children, a falling star']. I made a stink about it, it became part of the folklore. What really irritated me about it at the time was that it was a career shot.. I felt bleepy about it for years, but now, I don't have none of that."
• Murphy hasn't performed stand-up since the late 1980s, but recently, he's given some thought to trying again. "If I ever get back onstage, I'm going to have a really great show for you all," he says. "An hour and a half of stand-up and about 40 minutes of my bleepy band... But I haven't done it since I was 27, so why bleep with it? But that's just weighing both sides. It comes up too much for me to not do it again. It's like, when it hits me, I'll do it, eventually."
• Murphy addresses reports that he stormed out of the Oscars after losing the best supporting actor award to Alan Arkin. "Alan Arkin's performance in Little Miss Sunshine is Oscar-worthy, it's a great performance. That's just the way the bleep went. He's been gigging for years and years, the guy's in his seventies. I totally understood and was totally cool. I wasn't like, 'What the bleep?' Afterward, people were like, "He's upset," and I'm like, "I wasn't upset!" What happened was after I lost, I'm just chilling, and I was sitting next to Beyoncé's pops, and he leans over and grabs me and is like, [solemn voice] 'There will be other times.' And then you feel Spielberg on your shoulder going, 'It's all right, man.' Then Clint Eastwood walks by: 'Hey, guy... ' So I was like, 'It's not going to be this night!' [Mimes getting up] I didn't have sour grapes at all. That's another reason I wanted to host the show – to show them that I'm down with it."
Here is a short clip from Delirious. Pretty much the only one I can post here. And it's still really dirty, so you've been WARNED.
Yes, it's just a boring one of Tom, but still ... Via io9.
This is a real thing that's real. This website for an adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing went up at midnight. I believe I might have just peed my pants and, possibly, shrieked. It looks like Whedon just gathered up a bunch of his favourite people and made a movie in complete secret. Nathan Fillion! , who will, according to reports, play Dogberry. ("Oh, it's real. Very. Very. Real.") Tom Lenk! ("Muah ha ha ha! Secrets! Let's chat tomorrow!") Amy Acker! Sean Maher! ("I promise you it's the real deal and we're VERY excited about it!") Alexis Denisof! Fran Kranz! ("hmmmm.... that looks good.") Clark Gregg! Reed Diamond! No word on whether this was filmed before or during The Avengers shoot. Oh, wait! Pink is the new blog reports that it was shot during The Avengers production and entirely at Whedon's house. EW notes that, "Whedon has famously held Shakespeare readings at his home from time to time, but how he managed to squeeze this project into his post-production schedule on The Avengers remains a tantalizing mystery. Much Ado follows two couples — Benedick and Beatrice, chatty and cynical, and Claudio and Hero, driven almost mute by their love for each other — who are comically tricked by the dastardly Don John. Given that Acker and Denisof share top billing in Whedon’s film, it’s fair to surmise that they’re playing Benedick and Beatrice."
UPDATE: Here's the press release. And here is the cast:
Amy Acker - Beatrice
Alexis Denisof - Benedick
Nathan Fillion - Dogberry
Clark Gregg - Leonato
Reed Diamond - Don Pedro
Fran Kranz - Claudio
Sean Maher - Don John
Spencer Treat Clark - Borachio
Riki Lindhome - Conrade
Ashley Johnson - Margaret
Emma Bates - Ursula
Tom Lenk - Verges
Nick Kocher - First Watchman
Brian McElhaney - Second Watchman
Joshua Zar - Leonato’s aide
Paul M. Meston - Friar Francis
Romy Rosemont - The Sexton
And introducing Jillian Morgese as Hero
The show is filming in Dubrovnik, Croatia and io9 has these and more.
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