Billboard Bonanaza

The full set of billboard images at Film Focus make for some good browsing. Here's my favourites: a nice look at Grendel from Beowulf - the character Crispin Glover will be playing; Horton Hears a Who; something from The Spiderwick Chronicles, which intrigues me a little as Mark Waters is directing and it's just outside his comfort zone.

Quick Casting News: Jason Statham And Crispin Glover

Jason Statham is about to sign for Death Race, a long-in-development retooling of the truly superb Death Race 2000. Cripsin Glover is to lead in J T Mollner's The I Scream Man. The trades lit up with both stories, and they subsequently spread like wild fire.

Crispin Glover is in a small clique of actors that will get me interested in a project through nothing more than their involvement. Statham certainly is not, but he's pretty good at what he does. Bit like my mum and dad's milkman, really.

Glover And Connelly Bring 9 Total To 6

Aint it Cool are telling me that Crispin Glover and Jennifer Connelly have joined the voice cast for Shane Acker's 9. That's in addition to the four fellows we named for you in February: Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, John C Reilly and Christopher Plummer. Well done Acker.

Wizard Of Gore Is Go

Dread Central have posted a link to the newly opened website for Jeremy Kasten's Wizard of Gore. Of course, it's a remake of the Herschell Gordon Lewis classic, but this time it stars Crispin Glover and features a whole boatload of Suicide Girls. Jeffrey Combs and Brad Dourif are in there too. Please don't botch it, Kasten.

Three Beavers From Pop Candy

Pop Candy have pointed readers to The Beaver Trilogy on You Tube. They also point out a This American Life piece on the film, but misattribute it to Sarah Vowell.

I recently e-mail Trent Harris, the director of The Beaver Trilogy, but he didn't reply. Shame. It was for what would have been a nice article.

RW 7 Foot Jesus

According to John Malkovich, talking to IGN, Ray Winstone's appearance as Beowulf will be a seven foot amalgam of himself and Jesus. Better still, Anthony Hopkins character is going to be really very, very fat indeed.

There's been no mention of just how Grendel is going to work, of how much Crispin Glover there will be underneath the CG-skinned monster. The fact that none of the images 'leaked' a few days back seem to include any Grendel make me somewhat suspicious of their underhand nature, suggesting maybe that their appearance and the subsequent legal threats was just another contrived publicity ruse.

Yawn.

David Lynch Is A Soldier In The Infowar

Infowars are featuring a video clip of David Lynch discussing 'alternative 9/11 theories'. Here's a comment from the site:

"Lynch's decision to make public his views is another encouraging sign that 9/11 truth and visualizations such as Loose Change are crossing the boundary between "the alternative" and the mainstream, permeating Lynch's decision to make public his views is another encouraging sign that 9/11 truth and visualizations such as Loose Change are crossing the boundary between 'the alternative"'and the mainstream, permeating the collective consciousness of accessible culture, just as Lynch's work has done over the past four decades."

Somebody should tell them that Inland Empire has all the hope of "permeating the collective consciousness of accessible culture" that, I dunno, a Crispin Hellion Glover record has of topping the Billboard charts.

Let me remind you that David Lynch has been campaigning to set up Yogic Flying launchpads, as it were, across the world. Just wanted to put that out there (and trust me - it is out there).