Just a few quick links.
1. Reviews of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are popping up at sites like BoxOfficeMojo.com, NarniaWeb and Ain’t It Cool News, now that Disney has held a test screening of the film.
Here’s one spoiler-ish comment that might not please the film’s more Christian fans: “The major complaint of the Narnia-experts in the panel was that during the coronation scene, the children are not crowned in the name of the Emperor beyond the Sea, but rather in the name of the four winds and their powers.”
2. ComingSoon.net and FilmStew.com report that Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller (the latter of whom directed Carrey in 1996’s The Cable Guy) may be teaming up for the sci-fi comedy Used Guys:
Set many years in the future, Used Guys takes place in a society where women rule the planet after all the men have died out from ingesting an enhancement beverage that proved fatal.
Stiller and Carrey would play pleasure clones who are now out-of-date because newer models — with better listening and lovemaking skills — have been developed. In order to preserve the last bit of their dignity, the obsolete models make a run for it and try to find a mystical male nirvana known as Mantopia.
3. The Hollywood Reporter says Terrence Malick is in talks to write and direct Tree of Life. No details on the story yet, but it may be shot in India, and it may star Colin Farrell, who will be seen later this year as John Smith in The New World, Malick’s re-imagining of the Pocahontas legend.
4. Side note: I am watching Blade Runner (1982) for the first time in years, and I don’t care for it now any more than I have on previous viewings; but one thing that does jump out at me is that Tyrell (Joe Turkel) talks an awful lot like Agent Smith in the Matrix movies. An intentional homage, on the Wachowskis’ part?
I am also impressed by Ridley Scott‘s repeated use of the eye motif, and by the way the “empathy tests” that separate the human beings from the replicants are based on whether the respondents demonstrate empathy for mere animals. So . . . human society feels it doesn’t have to show any empathy for replicants because they don’t have any empathy for animals? Interesting.
5. Reminder: the Fellini series starts tonight! See you there?
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