The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: Done in 60 seconds

MONDAY

As usual, Monday brings up much news, but before: Happy Birthday to flawless Tilda Swinton!

In related news, related as in Hiddles is Tilda’s vampire lover in Only Lovers Left Alive, Hiddles talks about his new movie with Joanna Hogg. Apparently, it’s just a small part were he gets to play someone “incredibly normal”. Well, that’s a given with Hogg’s movies.

We have the first track of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey soundtrack: Radagast The Brown. As usual, Howard Shore delivers quality work. We also got a third TV spot with a bit more footage (and Gollum seems to have more hair~), and some behind the scene images.

Promo images from Beware of the Batman animated series that will be seen in DC Nation on Cartoon Network. Damn, Alfred looks ripped! The villains are not the most known ones, although they do say we’ll get Ra’s al Ghul.

Rumor has it Disney has also set its sights on Hasbro… damn! They would get the rights on Transformers, G.I.Joe and My Little Pony! What? I like My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic!

BTW, Harrison Ford wouldn’t mind reprising his Han Solo role in Star Wars: Episode VII. Considering Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are also hyped about it, we have the main trio liking the idea. Yay!

Talking about space franchises, there’s the new trailer for Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, the web series prequel to Battlestar Galactica, that will be premiere on Friday. Looks bitching~

Actor James Ransone talks about his work on Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy. Also tries to put some worries to rest:

They’ve taken more from the comic book than they did from the original movie in the script. The real issue is the expectation that it’s going to be a really watered down version. People should remember that Spike’s polemic, an antagonistic director.

So the Rurouni Kenshin movie was a hit with the critics and the audience, and now the Spanish distributor Mediatres Studio said a sequel true to the manga is being planned. I just hope I get to watch it here soon. Come on, local distributors!

mirella

YAM Magazine geek resident. Cloud Cuckoolander. Seldom web developer. Graphic designer.

6 Responses

  1. amy says:

    I have ADD, so the moment the shot switches, I can’t remember what I was watching a second ago. xD Oh, wait. Maybe it’s because I have Dory’s fish memory.

    And I’m happy for Kenshin, and freaking Peruvian/Latin American distributors… you’re missing a hit here. But DON’T market it as an anime movie, just as an action film.

    And Alexa Vega has changed… quite a bit. I’ve seen her grown up before, she’s just been Machete-fied. xD I think.

    And… DUDE. Jurassic Park~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m game for it. Always game for Jurassic Park. xD

    • mirella says:

      @amy, LOL yeah, about Rurouni Kenshin, they shouldn’t market it as an anime movie, fans will already know it’s based on the anime, and they don’t want to alienate non-otaku fans~
      Damn, Jurassic Park. My face was all :D when I saw the trailer

  2. All I’m hoping for is that the new Star Wars movies have a sense of adventure.

    Now Alexa Vega makes me feel old. Although I can sort of tell it’s her from the face.

    I don’t think I’ve told you how awesome this weekly feature is, Mirella. It’s especially great to have a fandom update if work/family/sudden other flashy fandoms take my attention away. This week I’ve been totally distracted by Noirvember and becoming suddenly addicted to the modern Pride and Prejudice webseries “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.” I kind of mainlined the later all Wednesday. With breaks. /random

    • mirella says:

      @Diandra Rodriguez, first of all, thanks! second, modern Pride and Prejudice webseries? I want!

      • @mirella, it all starts with episode 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs&feature=plcp) and it’s around 4 hours more of episodes until the latest. I can’t wait until the newest installment on Monday! There are a few spin-off things I sort of check on but I stop myself because I need to get other things done. I think the most brilliant thing they’ve done (besides knowing how to incorporate the presence of the web videos into later parts of the story) is how they made Lizzie’s best friend Charlotte into an active character. She gets kind of a raw deal in the book and other adaptations (especially Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).

  3. Camiele says:

    Okay, so my heart weeps I didn’t comment on this first as usual. Life has been handing me slices of failure pie for some time now, so I haven’t been keeping up with your fangirliness as I should.

    But, ohmygodsun! I think I can be slightly excited about this Oldboy remake. Practically all God’s kids know that Oldboy is one of my favourite films of all time. But Spike is also noe of my favourite directors. I should give it more faith than I have… though I guess that’s the true fangirl in me, but I’ve also seen too many remakes make a frace of the original, so I think I’m right in my need to be skeptical of the whole thing.

    Meanwhile… DREDD!!! And meanwhile… again… KENSHIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m soooo mad that I won’t be able to see this unless they release it on Netflix! To see this in a cinema would’ve made my LIFE! And probably would’ve been one of two films I saw this year… HaHa.

    Anyway, I’ve failed again in my aim to be more steadfast in my blogging-ness. Perhaps this is something I’ll start in December…? We’ll see. I won’t be able to come anywhere NEAR your fantstic fangirliness, but I’ll give it the old Harvard try ^-^

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