- Zack Snyder has a new film set up to follow 300 and Watchmen, his first original script. Called Sucker Punch, he describes it as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns". Nuff bloody said.
- old news, but cool nonetheless. Anna Paquin has signed as the lead in Alan Ball's vampire series True Blood for HBO. Although based on a series of books of questionable quality, Ball + HBO + vampires + Paquin is strange and tantalising indeed.
Looks to be a good year for HBO, with the final run of The Sopranos in April (I hope like hell that it recovers its momentum), David Milch's new show John from Cincinatti (cannot wait) and season 2 of Big Love (the first was nice, hopefully the second will be worth the visit), both in June, True Blood at the end of the year, and the 7-hour mini-series John Adams about the second US president starring Paul Giamatti (yay!) and Laura Linney.
- talking of the Horrendous Body Odour network, Martin Scorsese and Mark Wahlberg are teaming up to produce a show about the construction of Atlantic City. Scorsese and HBO - marvellous. Doesn't say whether it's a mini or an ongoing - either way it's good.
- I was amazed to read that Zach Braff stands to recieve a $350K per episode pay day if Scrubs is renewed for a seventh season. Not bad for someone who was a complete nobody when the series started who stars in a perennial underdog comedy who's one of the funniest looking romantic leads on TV. Don't get me wrong, I love Scrubs, but this is remarkable to me.
- a newspaper article on "Maelstrom" reveals that Katee Sackhoff is only 26!! Cue massive inferiority complex about achievements thus far in life.
- holy crap. I was just wondering if Carrie-Anne Moss would be forced to turn to television this morning while watching the trailer for her film Snow Cake, and lo and behold, while looking for the Paquin article on Coming Soon I find that she's signed for Guy Ritchie's pilot Suspect. Creepy.
- Devin Faraci interviews Zack Snyder on 300 and Watchmen. For the record, here is my ideal Watchmen cast, as best as I can summon one:
Nite-Owl - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Silk Spectre - Julianne Moore
Ozymandias - Clive Owen?? (this is a tough one)
Rorschach - John C. McGinley(Dr Cox from Scrubs) or Sam Rockwell
The Comedian - Ian McShane (although it's so close to Al Swearengen in temperament that I bet he'll never do it)
Dr. Manhattan - who the hell knows
- and finally, TV Guide's inimitable Matt Roush has seen the final three episodes of Battlestar Galactica's third season, and reacts thusly:
"I guarantee nobody will be able to predict the twists in the March 25 season finale, which will make you question everything you thought you knew about nearly everyone and everything. My jaw is still smarting from gaping in astonished disbelief.
The wait between seasons is going to be excruciating."
That sounds like a bit of all right.
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