Note to self: When checking on the possibility of Wicked the movie, don't read message boards. You get something like this:

Does anyone have any info on the film version?PLEASE tell me they're not considering Renee Zelwiger - lol.

Assuming Idina & Kristen are not eligible (Hollywood often requires bigger names)... who's your 'dream cast'? Mine:

ELPHABA - Charlize Theron, Minnie Driver

GLINDA - Megan Mullaly (Karen 'Will & Grace')

WIZARD - Joel Grey, Anthony Hopkins

MORRIBLE - Bette Midler

FIYERO - Hugh Jackman, Rob Thomas

NESSA - Natalie Portman

BOQ - Leonardo DiCapprio

Now, lemme say what I like. I like Bette as Madame Morrible. That's brilliant casting. She'd be awesome.

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Yeah. Damned near everything else is bad. I ADORE Megan Mullaly. If I could have her babies, I totally would. But...well...there ain't enough special effects in all of Lucas' one track, sad little mind to make her look 16. Hell, I'd rather Elphie and Glinda be played by Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman. And I LOVE Julia Roberts! (This is tongue in cheek. NO NO NO!)

Leonardo DiCaprio is too tall for Boq. Natalie Portman would be better suited as Elphie. Hugh Jackman? Again, I love him. Would have his babies, but I don't think so. Rob Thomas? Hells yeah. I could totally see that.

The Wizard casting isn't all bad, either.

Anyway, I have no idea what youngish actress I'd cast as Glinda. I must to think on it.

And as far as being "eligible" in Hollywood? Um, hello? They used almost the entire Broadway cast of Rent for the movie. Granted, they all looked too old and it took some people in the audience out of the story, but the hardcore fans went to see it anyway. And some of us who never saw the play loved the movie.

Furthermore, Kristin Chenoweth has been on The West Wing, appeared in Bewitched, and has a bit of a "Hollywood" career.

Personally, I'd like to see Taye Diggs as Fieryo.

Then again, I'd like to see him naked in my bedroom, so there is that.

Ack! I finally sat down to watch the entire trailer for the thing I linked above. Jilli, I'm so sorry I didn't warn you about the spider thingie.

Weirdest licensed merchandise ever.

A Silent Bob one would be kinda cool, except Kevin Smith makes me itch.

JZ dug into my Val Lewton box set tonight and we watched The Body Snatchers. Holy shit, that's a great horror movie. Fantastic look (using standing sets from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Magnificent Ambersons), dark, morally ambiguous. Probably Karloff's greatest performance - very sly and sardonic and menacing. Yet weirdly soulful.

Like most Lewton films (this was directed by Robert Wise), it looks and feels a lot like a noir.

I want to see Marie Antoinette and Pan's Labyrinth so much I'm attributing that sharp pain in my chest and numb feeling in my left hand to it.

I really want to see Marie Antoinette. And I dislike Kirsten Dunst immensely. But those trailers, with New Order, are just captivating.

And I dislike Kirsten Dunst immensely.

This movie will not make you like her, unfortunately. She's being directed in a very specifically stylized manner (as is everyone else), and while it works for what the film is trying to achieve, it's not very flattering to her acting abilities.

(But go see the movie anyway! It's almost great!)

I want to go because it'll be very very very pretty. I'm very into 18th century dress.

I want to go because it'll be very very very pretty.

Aimee is me. It looks like costume eye candy. Which is much the way I felt about The Age of Innocence, and the sets/costumes for Bram Stoker's Dracula.