Sep 23 2009 We Now Know Who Will Pretend To Found Facebook
David Fincher has ADDED some more FRIENDS to the cast of his vaguely-titled Facebook film, The Social Network (Note the witty reference I just made to "adding friends." Like with Facebook.):
Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebookâs founding president, and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg as the social network became a financial juggernaut.
Well, now that the cast is in place, it's up to Fincher to come up with a way to for my mom to come in at some point late in the film and quietly judge all the things I've said throughout, like how happened with actual Facebook.
Fincher Makes Facebook Connections [Variety]
Aug 5 2009 'Zombieland' Trailer: Zombie Brains, Zombie Boobs, Timid Whining
Put the kids to bed: there's a new, R-rated trailer for the undead brain-eater comedy Zombieland, and it fully earns its R-rating. Graphic content includes: lots of zombie carnage, bouncing zombie boobs in pasties, F words, and, most brutal, Jesse Eisenberg so far into Michael Cera's rival territory that he's surely by now a POW, captured and caged within his own slumped shoulders. Every time he speaks, you can't help but hear a phantom Arrested Development ukulele strumming faintly in the distance.
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Jun 19 2009 'Zombieland' Trailer, Says Sir Ian
It's Natural Born Killers, with zombies, only not at all! More accurately, it's the Zombieland trailer, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone as zombie survivalists, and Mike White as a guy on a toilet.
Sir Ian McKellen delivers Stephen-Fry-in-Hitchhiker's-Guide-style narration over the whole thing, and it's a joy to hear Gandalf say the word "zombie." A real sandwich for your ears:
Jun 12 2009 'Zombieland' Photos: Duck, I'm Going to Hit this Zombie with a Bat
I'm pretty sure Shaun of the Dead has forever won the genre, but if you're interested in giving more zombie comedy a try, AICN has some shots from Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin.
In the above shot, is that Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin? Supposedly there's also a brief cameo involving a zombie Bill Murray, so I'm thinking maybe there's a subplot where the zombies find a Second City Rolodex and strategically hunt down alumni. These zombies specifically want brains capable of humorously improvising a series of thematically-related scenes.
Oct 6 2008 Jesse Eisenberg Visiting 'Zombieland'
Another young actor is joining a Woody Harrelson movie! Earlier came news of Kat Dennings joining Defendor; now it looks like The Squid and the Whale's Jesse Eisenberg is signing on to Zombieland:
[Eisenberg] is in final talks to join Woody Harrelson in Columbia Pictures horror comedy "Zombieland," about a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies.Eisenberg is in negotiations to play Flagstaff, a terrified shut-in whose cowardice makes him an expert at surviving the zombies but who is forced out of his shell to join the band of survivors, which includes Harrelson.
Wait, being a terrified shut-in makes you adept at surviving a zombie apocalypse? If that's the case, then I'm a regular... Fifth Element in Resident Evil? I don't know. Someone who's good at surviving zombie attacks. Because I'm a fearful hermit.
