Anya ,'Potential'
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ION of mixed emotions for me: MGM Plans to Adapt Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned. I am ... wary. Yes, that's the best way to put it.
I'm at a loss regarding how would one go about making that without the entire audience assuming it was an Addams Family rip-off. I know Addams actually illustrated "Homecoming" back in the 40s and he and Bradbury talked about collaborating, but to anyone who doesn't know that history it's going to look derivative.
I was in the bookstore and they have (1) DVDs of some of the original "Dark Shadows" (includng "The Best of Barnabas") and (2) an entire series of books by Lara Parker (the original Angelique ... from Martinique ... who was in quite a pique).
Oh! While watching the Avengers, I had a quote pop into my head that pretty much only Buffistas (if anyone) would appreciate: when Thor gets ejected in the Hulk cage from the ship and tumbles towards the earth , I immediately thought, "Nobody likes a blond(e) in a hamster ball."
Elmore Leonard Richard Price(though part of me would like to see Burton!Funhouse Dempsy burnin cause I'm gross like that.) Dennis Bring-the-Pain, uh, Lehane ditto.
I'd like to see Burton do Star Trek.
If we're talking inappropriate for Burton, in erika's vein I give you James Elroy.
In another vein - J.G. Ballard.
Here's a long piece on the making of Thelma & Louise. Interesting to learn all the people who might have been cast: Jodi Foster, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn...
Charlie Jane did not like Dark Shadows:
There are few movies as boring as Dark Shadows. Not even, say, a 10-hour Andy Warhol movie about clams opening. This film offers such a high level of boredom, it approaches a mental discipline, like meditation. Perhaps in the course of watching this film, your mind will expand to the vanishing point of nirvana. Perhaps not.
In other news, I've been watching trailers for Laika Studios (Corline) new movie ParaNorman for a while and been cautiously intrigued. Then I found out my friend Elizabeth Cody wrote the book!
Wacky.
Speaking of JG Ballard, Frank, I bet you've never seen Thirteen to Centaurus.