Faye Dunaway May Get Evicted From Her Apartment (Sorta), and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Laurence Fishburne is Perry White in Man of Steel... Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis team up for the feel-good movie of the year (guessing)... Alec Baldwin will host the season premiere of Saturday Night Live... and more ahead.
· There's a joke here about wire hangers. Per the New York Times, actress Faye Dunaway is facing eviction from her rent controlled Manhattan apartment. Dunaway's landlord alleges that the Mommie Dearest star doesn't actually live there -- she has a home in Los Angeles -- and that rent control laws state that the tenant must call New York his or her main residence. The apartment in question sounds choice -- a $1,048.22 per month one-bedroom walk-up on the Upper East Side -- though if Dunaway is forced to vacate the premise, her neighbors likely won't mind. "She's not that glamorous person everybody saw in the movies," said a shop owner who works nearby the building. "We were surprised that she lived here in the first place." [NYT]
· The last major bit of Man of Steel casting has been set. As EW first reported, Laurence Fishburne will play Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White in Zack Snyder's Superman reboot. Fishburne's casting is the final piece of a very large puzzle that already includes Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, and potentially Russell Crowe. For bar night trivia enthusiasts: Perry White was played in previous Superman iterations by Jackie Cooper and Frank Langella. [EW]
· If you guessed that the men responsible for Taxi Driver and American Psycho would team up for a B-grade thriller involving sharks... you're right! Paul Schrader will direct Bait, an indie thriller about "a group of students trapped in shark-infested waters by a lunatic" that was written by Bret Easton Ellis. Schrader is also doing a polish on Ellis' script; he's got to get it organezized. [Variety]
· Anthony Mackie, Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Sanaa Lathan will star in Vipaka, a "voodoo-themed psychological thriller." [Variety]
· Release dates! Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will burn into theaters on Feb. 17, 2012; Walking With Dinosaurs, a feature film based on the popular BBC show, will debut on Dec. 20, 2013. [Deadline, Coming Soon]
· Your first two Saturday Night Live hosts for season 37, per Lorne Michaels: Alec Baldwin and Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy. [NYT]
Subscribe to the new Movieline on YouTube
Comments
The puzzle of why Zack Snyder was ever chosen to direct the reboot remains unsolved.
Oh, jeez. I love you, NP, but let him make the movie. Spending the next year convincing yourself how bad this is going to be is a self-fulfilling prophecy that has nothing to do with Zack Snyder.
I'm not exactly convincing myself it's going to be so bad, and it's not a franchise I have any strong interest/attachment to, but he just seems like a strange choice given his uneven (albeit limited) track record. Here's hoping it's more 300 than Sucker Punch.
I hear you, but there's so much precedence for this in Hollywood -- from Marc Webb back to Tim Burton and even back to Richard Donner, who was basically a TV director before he got the original Superman -- that all the Snyder angst and agita seems unreasonable at best and unfair at worst.
And I am anything but a Snyder fanboy! I just know I wouldn't want, say, the post I write at 3 p.m. today to be preemptively dismissed or downgraded because I booted the Oprah one a few hours earlier. It's all so exhausting.