Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got ten new trailers for you this week; check ‘em all out after the jump.
Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. It’s rather a light week, presumably due to the holiday and/or the kickoff of the Toronto Film Festival (which serves as something of a starter’s pistol for the fall movie season), but you can check out the meager pickings after the jump.
There are many wonderful books that very strangely haven’t been made into movies, and as equal parts book nerds and movie lovers, this gets us to thinking. Who would we want to play our favorite characters? In our minds, the most glaring omission from the Hollywood stable is an adaptation Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, the story of six brilliant students at a remote Vermont college who study Greek, perform Bacchic rituals, and wind up spiraling into an abyss marked by obsession, betrayal and murder. It’s an enthralling novel, to be sure, but its cinematic potential is based in its tense atmosphere, bizarre details and compelling storyline. Plus, Tartt’s characters are so wonderful and well-defined that it seems a shame not to have them represented on film. Here, we offer our humble casting suggestions.
1. Polaroid has named Lady Gaga their creative director. We’re not sure exactly what this means (some Ashton Kutcher-like commercials?), we just hope it translates into more eye candy. [via Fast Company]
2. After rumors that Cillian Murphy had locked down the part, it has been announced that none other than James Franco will play saw-happy mountaineer Aron Ralston in Danny Boyle‘s 127 Hours. Because he’s slowly taking over the world. [via Vulture]
3. Will Barack Obama‘s State of the Union speech push back the season premiere of Lost? It’s all up to the White House. [via TV Guide]
4. Alanis Morissette is penning a memoir inspired by the work of Jack Kerouac: “It’s really turned out to be a very philosophical, non-precious, photograph, travelogue, essays — a little ADD.” [via Spinner]
5. H&M Herald Square has decided to stop throwing away its unsold clothes (after slashing them up with razors), and will donate unworn items to charity instead. [via HuffPo]
Bonus link: Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral Characters
Director Christopher Nolan’s first original screenplay since The Dark Knight, the mysteriously titled Inception, will be out next summer. For now, we can only ponder the film’s tag-line, “Your mind is the scene of the crime” and the spinning top that appears on the newly-launched website. (Semi-Spoiler Alert!) /Film speculates that the the movie is about “entering peoples’ minds/dreams. A technology to do so has been developed and is done through an injection. DiCaprio and his team work to enter the minds of other characters in order to retrieve/plant information.” Read More »
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