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Daniel Craig is to play Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass according to Variety (via SciFi Wire). I’ve never read it, so I have no idea if that’s interesting or not.
The rest of cast includes Eva Green, who’s the Bond girl for Craig’s Casino Royale, and Nicole Kidman.
Will Ferrell has a new film out soon (doesn’t he always?). It’s called Stranger than Fiction and seems a bit smarter than his usual fare. Co-starring Emma Thompson, Queen Latifah, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Dustin Hoffman, it should also prove a warning to authors, struggling or otherwise.
Here’s the YouTube trailer, and there’s a very weird official site, too.
Time was, directors’ commentaries on DVDs were an optional extra. You knew you had a classy DVD if there was a commentary.
Nowadays, if you put out a DVD, an investigative hearing will be convened if you don’t have a commentary track, no matter how bad.
Commentaries are even springing up before the DVDs come out; you can download the Doctor Who commentaries and Battlestar Galactica commentaries the night the episode airs then list to them while you watch a recording of the show.
But there’s also an odd trade growing in fake commentaries.
Continue reading “The burgeoning trade in directors’ commentaries, real or otherwise”
Oh well. Guess the brainteaser was either too hard or not interesting enough. Here are the answers anyway:
Anthony Higgins played the part of Sherlock Holmes in the TV movie Sherlock Holmes Returns. This was originally a pilot for a TV series, but it never got the green light. I actually quite enjoyed it though – you can probably find it on Five or Hallmark at some point.
As for the part of Moriarty, Higgins was Professor Rathe in Young Sherlock Holmes. At the end of the film, Rathe changes his name to Moriarty.
Jeremy Brett famously played Sherlock Holmes in a whole series of TV dramas from Granada, back when they still made quality TV. But he also played Holmes on stage in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes. The secret, it turns out, is that Moriarty and Holmes are the same person: Holmes has become so bored with his unchallenging cases that he’s developed an alter ego that is his own equal and therefore a challenge.
Anyone got any others?
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