You Can Be Darth Vader, and 4 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: More Darren Aronofksy-is-going-to-direct-some-robot-crap rumors... Thriller may be adapted for the multiplex... Wesley Snipes has a bad idea... A town in Maine wants to import Chinese kids... and more!

· Just in time for Halloween, you can bid to acquire the Darth Vader costume from the original Star Wars. An auction house in London expects the attire to fetch in the low to mid-$300,000 range at a memorabilia sale next month, or, in the spirit of eBay, you can probably offer to just buy that sucker now for $400,000 and change. Or, you can just go with your original plan and attend your Halloween party as Sexy Darth Vader. Up to you. [AP]

· Darren Aronofsky is attached to develop and direct something called Machine Man, and adaptation of a novel about a gadget geek and engineer who replaces his body parts with high-power titanium. Think 127 Hours meets Iron Man. Or think RoboCop, Aronofsky's rumored Paul Verhoeven remake that seems to be dead in the water at this point. [Deadline]

· Producer Graham King is reportedly in "active negotiations" to acquire feature-adaptation rights to Michael Jackson's blockbuster hit Thriller. Kenny Ortega, who handled the posthumous MJ concert doc This Is It, would direct. [Deadline]

· As long as Wesley Snipes isn't in prison, the man will be working. But this? Master Daddy, a self-described "multi-racial action comedy [...] mix of Kung Fu Hustle and Meet the Parents"? Hoo boy. Once this is said and done, maybe Snipes can get that three-year sentence reduced a bit for time served. [Variety]

· Is it The Onion or is it The NY Times: Things have gotten so bad in tiny Millinocket, Me., that the local high school is hoping to import Chinese students whose families are willing to pay $27,000 per year of public high school education. Accompanying quote: "We get some commodity pasta, and it makes a great lo mein." I swear I'm not making this up. [NYT]