Oct 9 2008 Ryan Gosling Could Be Green Lantern

Latino Review is reporting that Ryan Gosling, the man who beat your heart senseless with romance in The Notebook (I think, since I never saw The Notebook), is Warner's first choice to wear a green ring and pretend to be a superhero:

You know who the studio wants to wear Abin Sur’s ring and take up the mantle of The Green Lantern?

From my trusted source within the WB, I’m hearing… RYAN GOSLING

Mind you, I don’t know if an offer has been made, and if WB is into it now with Ryan’s people, but once again Gosling is who I’m hearing the WB wants for Hal Jordan.

Well, I guess that shoots down my theory that they'd get a '90s Jim Carrey for the role and just remake The Mask with a green ring instead of a mask. But maybe they'll still get Jaime Kennedy for the sequel? We can always dream.

Jan 22 2008 Dunst Checks In! (To 'All Good Things' With Ryan Gosling)

All right, Variety. So we're going to pretend Kirsten Dunst is gorgeous and talented, instead of grandmotherly/gremlin-esque and mediocre-at-best, to announce her new role? Fine, let's play that game.

The gorgeous and talented Kirsten Dunst is in negotiations to star alongside the disgusting-by-comparison Ryan Gosling in All Good Things, an '80s romance/murder mystery in which she'll, obviously, play someone really good looking:

Set in the 1980s, story centers on the scion of a New York real estate dynasty (Gosling) who falls for a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks (Dunst). But the fairy tale ends when the girl disappears. As a down-and-out detective stumbles on info that may lead to the truth, the political stakes get higher and people close to the case end up dead.

Seeing Dunsling (the imaginary coupling of Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling) on screen should be a treat. Gosling has proven himself a talented young star, and Dunst is real easy on the eyes, if you know what I mean. If she's playing a girl from the "wrong side of the tracks," let's start considering that the "right, really hot side of the tracks," because that side is clearly where all the beautiful, non-trollish girls are.

Gosling, Dunst line up 'Good Things' [Variety]

Jan 21 2008 Some Other Crap That Happened...

- Penelope Cruz will lend her voice to G-Force, playing an animated, super-intelligent guinea pig named Juarez. If they base the character's look on her, Juarez has the potential to replace both Minnie Mouse and Jerry in Drag as my top animated rodent crush. [Hollywood Reporter]

- Ryan Gosling is reportedly playing the role of Jack Ryan--the Tom Clancy-created character portrayed famously by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, and later by Ben Affleck--in an upcoming film, but it won't be based on one of Clancy's novels. How is the Clancipedia supposed to put together a legitimate canon if Hollywood is going to keep throwing out this kind of bullshit? [Moviehole]

- It sounds like Josh Brolin will be playing George W. in the aptly-titled Bush, Oliver Stone's planned biopic on the president. After all the times he corrected Mikey, it will be good to hear Brand making some verbal faux pas for once. [Variety]

- The Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer will air on Entertainment Tonight on Valentine's Day, giving us dweebs our only shot at any gratification for the holiday. [CHUD]

Oct 22 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...

- Harry Potter author JK Rowling announced the character of Dumbledore was gay. In response, my roommate said, "No shit. The whole f***ing thing is gay." [Newsweek]

- Mark Wahlberg has stepped in to replace Ryan Gosling in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones with just a day until shooting. Incidentally, this isn't the first time this has happened, with Wahlberg having previously stepped up when Gosling, at the last moment, abandoned his funky bunch. [Variety]

- Steve Buscemi and Daniel Bruehl have joined the cast of John Rabe, the true story of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjin massacre. It sounds like a lot of people, but percentage-wise it's like saving an American's left arm. [Variety]

- James McAvoy is rumored to be up for the role of grunge legend Kurt Cobain in an upcoming biopic. The first screen test will be to see if he can show affection to something that looks anything remotely like Courtney Love. [All Headline News]

Aug 9 2007 Lars and the Real Girl Trailer

Lars and the Real Girl, written by Six Feet Under scribe Nancy Oliver, stars Ryan Gosling as a lonely, awkward man turned delusional freak when he purchases a sex doll and starts acting like she's real. Sadly, the summary provided makes no mention of why he's acting like Napoleon Dynamite or where I can get myself a sex doll, leaving me at a loss for both the lead character's motivations and for something plastic and womanly to stick my D in.

Official Trailer [Apple]