Ooh, neutron cream. There’s fun. I’m assuming some form of mental deficiency or complicity among those who applied it?
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Wednesday’s “No more True Blood, Midsomer Murders goes to Denmark and NBC’s telenovelas” news
Film
- Horrible Bosses 2 happening
Film casting
- Jared Harris joins The Man From UNCLE, filming to start next week
- Kurt Russell joins Fast & Furious 7
Trailers
- New trailer for Man of T’ai Chi
Book
- Hercule Poirot to return next year
UK TV
- The Midsomer Murders to head to Denmark for 100th episode
US TV
- HBO cancels: True Blood
- Trailer for season 2 of Arrow
- Monday ratings
US TV show casting
- Jason Priestley to guest on 300th CSI episode
New US TV shows
- Starz developing: Survivor’s Remorse
- NBC developing: three telenovelas, including The Black Widow
- ABC adapting: No Way Back
US TV
Trailer time: Elementary, from London, England
Here’s a trailer for the new season of CBS’s Elementary. Sean Pertwee seems to be having fun as Lestrade and they seem to be going for a louche Rhys Ifans, rather than a more sophisticated Ifans, as Holmes’ brother Mycroft.
BTW, I always love the way American announcers have to specify “London, England”, just in case we thought it might be London, Ontario, they were talking about. Canadian announcers get a pass, obviously.
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Under The Skin sounds rubbish, looks terrifying
So Scarlett Johansson’s got a new film in-festival at the moment: Under The Skin. In it, she’s an alien who comes to Scotland and after reviving a corpse, has sex with lots of guys and kills them. It’s supposed to depict an alien’s view of life on Earth and have very little dialogue.
Sounds rubbish, doesn’t it? But here’s the teaser trailer:
Yikes. It’s directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) from a book by Michel Faber. It also apparently had an odd filming technique:
In many ways, it was shot like a sophisticated and extended episode of “Candid Camera.” Johansson would climb into a van equipped with an array of hidden video cameras, each about the size of a pack of cigarettes.
As she cruised around Glasgow, where the actress was rarely recognized, she would try to persuade strangers to climb in the passenger seat, just as if she were the character she was playing. If the men were willing, they would later be informed that they had unwittingly joined a movie and would be asked to sign a release.
Should be worth a watch, I reckon. Anyone read the book?
UPDATED (4/9/13): Broken video replaced with working video
Charley says: don’t run
Just don’t. You never know what’s round the corner.