Danny Strong to write 'Hunger Games' [two-part] finale.

Jesus Christ, that's huge!! Go Danny. Do us nerds proud.

That's awesome. Go Danny!

Did we know about this? [link]

Yes, yes we did. It's been a long time coming, though. There were photos from filming ages ago.

Looks goofy but with a potential to be charming if it's handled with appropriate amount of froth. The supporting cast is pretty awesome.

Another new trailer I came across earlier today: [link]

It's a new film by Park Chan Wook, with a plot that looks like it may be a remake / reinvention of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. I love the Hitchcock (Joseph Cotten is amaaaazing as the creepy uncle Charlie) and this looks like it could be brilliant. Except in my limited sampling of Park's work, I found I had little stomach for his particular combination of brutality and nihilism, so I'm wary.

I love Justin Kirk!

The eyeliner is not working for him, however.

Flavorwire: Nine Thins We Learned At Last Night's Princess Bride Reunion.

Elwes and Patinkin did all their own fencing. Though stunt people were used for some of the flips and gymnastics, Reiner says that Elwes and Patinkin did their sword-fighting themselves. “Rob said from the beginning, I don’t want stuntmen, I don’t want shots of arms,” Patinkin says. “I want you guys to film it, I want wide shots where we see the two of you.” Reiner felt tremendous pressure to stage the scenes well. “In the screenplay,” he recalls, “before the first swordfight, it’s described by Bill Goldman, it says, ‘What you’re about to see is the second-greatest swordfight in movie history. The first-greatest comes later.’” The duo trained and practiced for months — with two teachers, one for the right-handed fighting, and one for the left — up to and including the shoot, where Reiner scheduled the fight at the end of production so they could work on it as long as possible. “Cary and I would film separately for most of our scenes,” Patinkin remembers, “so during lunch and dinner was when we had the chance to work together.” When the time finally came to shoot, it led to “the only depressing moment” of the production for the actor: “When Rob would say, ‘Cut, print, we got it,’ and I would look at Cary and I’d go, ‘That means we don’t get to do that part anymore!’”

Awwww, they were loving their sword fight training.

Ooh, that's lovely. Thanks, Hecubus. I saw the quote about Goldman wanting to write a sequel going about, but didn't know what it was from.

... I rather hope he doesn't. Some things shouldn't have sequels. (At least, not official ones.) You can't put the lightning back in the bottle.

I just read a tor.com article on how stupid Looper was (things fall apart), and in the related items section is "This Year's Best Sci Fi Movie By Far: Looper" Fine, it's a website, not a hive mind. And suddenly I blank on all the other competitors for the title, so I ain't even mad at the writer. But...

Writer-director Rian Johnson’s third feature, Looper, is one of the best science fiction movies I have ever seen.

I’ve been writing about science fiction movies here at Tor.com for a couple years now. I love science fiction and movies, and I don’t make greatest-of-all-time announcements lightly. But sometimes it’s necessary, and with a movie as richly imagined, gracefully and stylishly executed, and emotionally overwhelming as Looper, it is. The only SF movie I can unambiguously call better, 2001, is sufficiently different to make the comparison meaningless. The point is, Looper is a work of cinematic art so profoundly and deeply beautiful in its fierce, dark vision of a terrifyingly, vividly real future, that its equal in SF will not be seen for a very, very long time.

Oh, good lord. I....maybe I'm stuck in grump more forever. In a week where I'm unhappy with Supernatural, I'm clearly unhappy with life.