- The BBC has confirmed that gross fan fiction will be made real when David Tennant and Billie Piper join newer Doctor and companion Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman in this November's Doctor Who 50th anniversary special. John Hurt will also appear to be like, "Wouldn't I have been a pretty good Doctor?" We will agree.
- While Stephen Soderbergh has retired from feature films, he's not quite ready to finally bite into that new Bioshock quite yet. In addition to stage versions of Magic Mike and Cleopatra, he tells EW he's also working to adapt John Barth's 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor into a 12-hour miniseries. The one-hour episodes will look at the colonization of Maryland in the 1600s from a satirical angle. Truly nothing is sacred.
- Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Selena Gomez, and Laurence Fishburne have signed on to star alongside Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy in Macy's directorial debut, Rudderless. The film focuses on a father who, after the loss of his son, discovers the deceased kid's written music and forms a band in the hopes of finding himself closure. Instead, he finds himself in the behind-the-warnings stock footage of an erectile dysfunction drug commercial.
Pull out your pens and tablets, because our running tally of Incompetent First-Time Criminal Dark Comic Thrillers Set in Wintery Locales--a list that currently includes Fargo, A Simple Plan, Big Nothing, Ice Harvest, Big White, and probably other things I'm forgetting--has a new entry: Thin Ice, Jill Sprecher's wintery locale-set comic-thriller about incompetent first-time criminals Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup. It looks... sort of familiar?
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Hey, there's a new trailer for Public Enemies, which, if you've forgotten, is the new Michael Mann film that has Johnny Depp and Christian Bale facing off as John Dillinger and Notable Agent Who Hates Dillinger, respectively. Also starring: Marion Cotillard (the lady you didn't recognize who won an Academy Award a couple years ago) and Billy Crudup affecting a really convincing old-fashioney voice. Have it:
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As is the case with most recent movies involving a brooding Christian Bale and regular gunfire, Public Enemies looks good. In fact, with Michael Mann at the helm and Johnny Depp as Dillinger (reminding us he can play non-goofy, non-pirate roles), it looks really good. But none of these powerful elements are highlight of this new trailer for the film. The best part is Billy Crudup's spot-on old fashioney voice:
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All this week, NBC will be posting a new video profile of a Watchmen character every day. By Friday, you'll know so much about these heroes that you won't even need Teen Beat's "Which Watchmen Do You Kiss Most Like?" quiz to discern that I definitely kiss like The Comedian (rough but funny and flirty).
Today's profile is Dr. Manhattan. It's not embeddable, so you'll have to click around here if you want at it. I'm sorry.
Another new shot from Watchmen, this time of Dr. Manhattan exploding a guy. I swear, by the time the film comes out, I'll have seen so many production stills that it will feel like I've already read some kind of "image book" that outlines the entire plot. Then what's the point of the movie?
Clever, right? No one has probably thought of that yet. Anyway, better resolution version at io9.
The Watchmen footage shown at the San Diego Comic Convention has finally been made a feature of the internet. iTunes is now hosting the trailer, which you can access by clicking here (via AICN) or searching "watchmen" in the iTunes program. If you go with the latter option, be careful to click the movie Watchmen and don't accidentally click The Prize Fighter Inferno's "Who Watched the Watchmen" song from their album My Brother's Blood Machine. That is a song you do not want to hear.
This Watchmen trailer is going to knock you on your nerdy ass. It will knock your books out of your arms, shove you in a locker, and make you do its homework, but you'll still pathetically ask it to come to your birthday party:
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Six new posters for Watchmen have been spread to various media outlets, each poster depicting a character from the film standing or squatting near a quote. Above, from the LA Times, is the Comedian lighting his cigar with a flamethrower--the third coolest way to light a cigar after dragon's flame and hellfire. Below the cut: the remaining five!
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For those of you who missed the Scream Awards last night, first off, what were you thinking??? Secondly, here's the new trailer for Watchmen that debuted.
I forget, did the comic have this much slow motion and so many dramatic landings?
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