Nolan interviewed by El Periódico de Aragón

Christopher Nolan: "El verdadero superhéroe pasa totalmente desapercibido" ("The true superhero gets totally inadverted")
( El Periódico de Aragón - 18/08/2008 )

James Franco as Jack Ryan?

"Sam Raimi is working to get the Jack Ryan franchise off the ground and relaunched but replacing Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck is proving difficult (OK, replacing Affleck shouldn't be too hard). CHUD has some interesting scoop on who Raimi wants, who Sony doesn't want and what it might mean for the franchise.

They report that Raimi wants to cast his SPIDER-MAN star James Franco as Jack Ryan but the Sony execs aren't ready yet to hand over a big franchise like this to Franco. This is reportedly causing a major rift between Raimi and Sony and may wind up causing the director to walk off the project. Personally I think Franco's a great choice for an action star if someone would give him the chance. He'd need to bulk up a bit I suppose but if Matt Damon (Matt Damon!) can become one of the biggest action stars courtesy the BOURNE franchise, why not Franco? Of course what does this mean to the ongoing negotiations between Sony and Raimi for SPIDER-MAN 4? All interesting things to keep an eye on...

Extra Tidbit: Franco wears a prosthetic schlong in the upcoming drama MILK"
Source: www.joblo.com

The Batman Franchise

"The Dark Knight" slipped to No. 2 with $16.8 million in ticket sales in its fifth weekend of release but broke yet another commercial barrier along the way by becoming the second-highest-grossing film ever.Details are a little sketchy on what the DARK KNIGHT DVDs are going to include but seeing as how it's poised to become a) the second biggest movie of all-time and b) the biggest movie released in the DVD era, we knew you'd expect a lot of different versions to be available. While we still don't have a lot of the specs on what these DVDs will contain, we are starting to get some word on what kinds of versions will be available. A scooper named "Dave" sent in some images that we've been able to confirm as legit. They would confirm a 2-disc DVD, a Blu-ray, a steelbook 2-disc DVD special edition, a Batpod collector's DVD and a Batman mask collector's DVD (basically the 2-disc DVD shrink-wrapped with a Batman mask).In trying to track down more info on these DVDs, I've heard two conflicting release dates - December 2nd and December 9th. Either way THE DARK KNIGHT is poised for some huge sales this holiday season. I've already got my eyes on that steelbook...
Source: www.joblo.com
"But given that it unites Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, the studio is trying to figure out how such the pic (cast with younger actors) would affect its existing Batman and Superman franchises -- and whether the script respects how the characters play off each other in the DC universe.

To put it simply: the studio doesn't want to piss off the Comic-Con contingent.When it comes to Batman, the future of the franchise is in Christopher Nolan's hands. That's what a successful reboot with "Batman Begins" and breaking records with "The Dark Knight" will do.

There's a deal for the director to helm a third pic, but he has yet to decide on whether to tackle it yet.

"We have no idea where Chris is going with this," Horn says. "We haven't had any conversations with him about it."

Either way, there's no question Warner Bros. will produce more superhero pics. The question is when.

"These are big, iconic characters," Noveck says. "So when you make them into a movie, you'd better be shooting for a pretty high standard. You're not always going to reach it, but you have to be shooting for it. We're going to make a Justice League movie, whether it's now or 10 years from now. But we're not going to do it and Warners is not going to do it until we know it's right."
Source: www.variety.com

More belles with puppies

Kirsten Dunst posing with a cat.
Emmy Rossum playing with her pet pooch Sugar at Harmony Lane.
Diablo Cody with her dog Barnabas.
Maggie and a black cat.
Magan Fox and a brown cat.
Cintia Dicker and a teddy-bear.

Zooey Deschanel's rhythm

Zooey Deschanel on 2nd August - Newport Folk Festival.

Zooey Deschanel on 10th August - Virgin Mobile Festival: Day 2.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Zooey and Jason Schwartzman - IFP Independent Spirit Awards, February 2004.
Zooey Deschanel with umbrella.Tobey Maguire with umbrella.

My new tv crush

Kevin Connolly is my new tv crush, he was naïvely funny as Ryan Malloy in "Unhappily Ever After", Ryan Gosling's friend Fin in "The notebook", Steve Maguire in "John Q." hospital drama and one of the main characters in "Entourage" series as Eric Murphy, the most reliable guy of the bunch.
In real life Kevin is good friends with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. Since I've come back to watching tv, "Entourage" is one of the few shows I've followed and my crush towards Kevin has developed fully because he cracks me up everytime he has his tough banter with his friend Vincent's pretentious manager Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven, nominated to one Emmy as well as "Entourage"). John Koch, "Entourage"s creator explained that he didn't know when Ari's famous "let's hug it out bitch" motto was originated. The line is, in fact, something Jeremy Piven made up.

Simon Pegg off "Inglorious Bastards"

"Simon Pegg today revealed that he will no longer be appearing in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards.

“I won’t be appearing in QT’s forthcoming Inglorious Bastards due to insurmountable scheduling difficulties. We really tried to make it work but in the end, it just was not possible without severe ramifications elsewhere.”

However, there is some good news in the Pegg department. His next film with onscreen partner Nick Frost, entitled Paul, will be directed by Superbad director Greg Mottola".

From Empire:

"Details on the script are minimal at the moment, but it is known that the story concerns the pair taking a road trip across America and, as Jessica Hynes let slip in our Comic-Con video diaries, the story will start at San Diego Comic-Con".

Source: filmonic.com