Warcraft-Monger Sam Raimi Headlines All-Director Edition of Hollywood Ink!
· While yesterday might have been an OK day for actresses to adapt Ayn Rand opuses, today is all about big projects and the directors who love them. None are bigger than Sam Raimi and World of Warcraft, a collision of geek iconography hot enough to tan even the pastiest fanboy flesh. The filmmaker will adapt the multi-player video-game institution for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. after shooting Spider-Man 4 this fall, which I guess gets us to the bad news: In all likelihood, Raimi is done with the Spider-Man franchise. [NYT]
Tim Burton throws Shadows, James Mangold revisits problem kids, and more auteur-centric Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· While one report today attributes protracted downtime for Johnny Depp following Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton insisted he will keep the star busy as usual in 2010 with their long-planned adaptation of the soapy, supernatural TV cult classic Dark Shadows. [MTV]
· I have no idea what happened to James Mangold directing Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the comedy formerly known as Wichita, but maybe it was just Jami Gertz's enthusiastic charm as a rookie producer that drew him to Three Little Words as well. He'll adapt Ashley Rhodes-Courter's memoir about her rough upbringing in foster care; a few tweaks to the Girl Interrupted formula here and there, and Oscar, here we come. [Variety]
· The best part about the news that Darren Lynn Bousman will direct the horror flick Abattoir for Radical Pictures isn't his actual hiring, but rather Variety's parenthetical intercession after the film's title: "(the French word for slaughterhouse)." Someone call Radical marketing, see how that might fly on a poster. [Variety]
· Morgan Spurlock will return to the Super Size Me well with the graphic novel Supersized: Strange Tales From a Fast Food Culture, featuring stories such as the one about a "fat man whose cremation made a mortuary smell like French fries." What? He didn't say they had to be true. [THR]
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How is Sam Raimi never directing another Spider-Man movie "bad news"? He should have quit after Spider-Man 2.
Because there will be probably be a Spider-Man 5 directed by whoever happens to be the Brett Ratner of the moment?
Had not heard about Dark Shadows. I could be into that.
One imagines that the Ain't It Cool News offices are awash in spunk at the news of Raimi's ascension into the gamer's Valhalla. Personally, I had hoped that Peter Greenaway would direct. Nothing would have pleased me more than to hear confused fanboys outside the theater: "Why did they have such elaborate meals? And why did everyone talk like pretentious graduate students?"
1. The World of Warcraft movie will be the only film where the hero can save the world, and still not get laid.
2. To Tim Gunn- Dark Shadows was a soap opera about a family and their vampire relative. There was an attempt to revive the show in the 1990s, but it didn't last. I guess you could say that it sucked. Bwah-hah-hah!!! Damn I'm brilliant.
3. Everyone knows what Girl Interrupted did for Winona Ryder's career.
4. Toss that one in the oubliette. (The French word for a pit-like dungeon)
5. French fries? Come on, a cooking body smells like bbq pork, especially when you use Bulls-Eye bbq sauce. Don't ask me how I know that.
Dark Shadows? Wow that's like, almost as profound as bright sunshine.