This Week In Links
I have officially joined the technology of the 21st century. I found a hell of a deal on a 27″ HDTV online and couldn’t pass up the opportunity, so I shelled out the money and couldn’t be more pleased. Now I just need to switch my cable box out for an HDTV unit, and I’ll be one happy camper. It’ll come in handy next weekend when I get my wisdom teeth pulled and will be stuck on the couch hopped up on goofballs. Good times.
Here’s This Week In Links for Friday, April 20, 2007:
A remake of a John Waters film? John Travolta dressed in drag as an overweight woman, AND married to Christopher Walken? Cinematical has your first look at the remake of HAIRSPRAY! [Cinematical]
Lawrence Fishburn, previously rumored to be voicing the planet-eating giant Galactus in the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, has actually been cast as the voice of Silver Surfer instead. [Hollywood Reporter]
Joystiq has coverage of the art gallery exhibit honoring all that is great in the old school video game world: The “I am 8-bit” art exhibit. Over 200 attended the showing, some of which had “questionable hygiene”. [Joystiq]
For the IMAX release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Warner Bros is modifying the last 20 minutes of the film to be displayed in IMAX’s 3D technology. The last film broke IMAX box office records when released in 2005. [Sci Fi Wire]
Matthew Fox (Lost, Party of Five) is in final negotiations to play Speed Racer’s competition and long-”Lost” (heh, get it?) brother in the Wachowski Brother’s Speed Racer adaptation. If cast, he will join Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, and John Goodman who recently joined. [Sci Fi Wire]
IGN had an exclusive interview with Orson Scott Card about his adaptation of his most famous work, Ender’s Game. Despite numerous stalls and script rejections, he still is planning to move forward with the film, even if it means producing the film independently. He also reveals that the movie will be a combination of the novel and its mirror novel, Ender’s Shadow. [IGN]
