Natalie Portman as 'Edgy' Snow White, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in today's Broadsheet: Breaking Dawn resists the 3-D tide (for now)... Prince of Persia is the most scathing anti-Iraq metaphor you never saw... McG and Bryan Singer retreat to the Web... and more...
· That rumored "edgy" Snow White adaptation that Brett Ratner was planning at Relativity apparently has drawn "interest" from Natalie Portman. I hasten to add that the Black Swan star is not attached, nor is the film beyond the earliest of development stages. That said, I thought this was Courtney Love's project to lose? [Pajiba]
· Summit Entertainment has confirmed that the two-part Twilight Saga finale Breaking Dawn will be produced in glorious 2-D. Don't belt "Hallelujah" just yet, however: The studio also noted that a 3-D conversion in post is not out of the question. Spines, people! Use them! [Gossip Cop via MTV]
· "Prince of Persia features the most absurdly obvious anti-Iraq War themes. In a film that generally dwells only on surfaces, the only delving below the surface that goes on in this film is when the film's leads, ludicrous stand-ins for George Bush and Dick Cheney, go digging underneath the Persian sands to find hidden weapons to justify their attack on an innocent holy city(!)." Her emphasis, not mine. [Libertas]
· McG and Bryan Singer may never make a movie again, but they'll always have the Web. Won't we all. [LAT]
· Playwright L.D. Napier apparently cast her filmmaking debut Mis-Fits using IMDB and a blindfold: Guy Pearce, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Seymour Cassel, Cloris Leachman and Virginie Ledoyen are all signed up to star in the comedy about a private eye who goes searching for people's "lost, dead relatives." [THR]
· DreamWorks and the makers of Disturbia are off the hook from claims they ripped off Rear Window; a judge on Tuesday dismissed a copyright infringement suit brought by the estate of author Cornell Woolrich in 2008. [Reuters]
· NYC lawyer Daniel K. Perlman squatted rent-free in his office for seven months after his landlord moved out -- of the 40th floor of the Empire State Building. My hero. [NYT]
Comments
Geez, when King Kong squats at the Empire State Building, he gets shot at by biplanes! Total speciesism.
Yes, Natalie, what you need is to work with Brett Ratner, because nothing says quality like "Directed by Brett Ratner." (Although I have a feeling you've never even heard of this project and the "interest" comes from Relativity's PR department).
Just got back from seeing the Social Network. It is a outragous movie!