Wes Craven’s Real Horror: Pauly Shore

Guess who’s not going to be starring in Wes Craven’s upcoming horror flick 25/8? It’s most likely that Pauly Shore won’t be in the film — unless there’s some sort of bizarre court ruling forcing Craven to take the weasel in. (Wasn’t that Shore’s nickname?)

Via Curbed LA, I found this news story about Pauly Shore countersuing Wes Craven over some property damage. The story states:

Craven is being countersued by Shore, who alleges his Hollywood Hills neighbor is responsible for slope failure on the comedian’s property, court papers show.

I wish news stories would get all their facts straight. (more…)

Mo’ Mutants, Mo’ Problems

There’s two ways this is going to go down. Shoving so many mutants into one film is either going to look really cool or the X-Men Origins: Wolverine is going to get too bloated. There’s been a ton of casting announcements named lately joining Hugh Jackman on-screen. They are:

Ryan Reynolds: Deadpool
Taylor Kitsch: Gambit
will.i.am: John Wraith
Liev Schreiber: Sabretooth
Danny Huston: Col. William Stryker
Lynn Collins: Silver Fox

Right now this just sounds like Wolverine hangin’ out with a slightly edgier group of mutants, but really how is this different than the X-Men movies? I thought this was a solo film, but he’s not very solo with this bunch. However, I always enjoyed the X-Men movies way more than I thought I would, yes even *shudder* Brett Ratner’s version, so maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised again.

David Fincher’s Big Black Hole

This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time. According to Variety, David Fincher has signed on to direct an adaptation of Black Hole, the graphic novel by Charles Burns. Zodiac was my favorite film of 2007 and Black Hole was one of my favorite comic series over the 10 years it took Burns to write and draw it. I think one issue came out per year and it was such a killer book you didn’t mind the wait. It’s now been collected into a book and I highly recommend it.

Variety says that Alexandre Aja was previously attached to direct, but he’s doing Piranha 3D instead, so good riddance. The article also mentions that a script adaptation was written in 2006 by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary. That makes me worried a little bit since I didn’t like their script for Beowulf at all. Mr. Perfectionist Fincher will probably have the script reworked to his suiting. Or maybe it’s good already. Whatever, this is now the most anticipated movie at the top of my list. And given how slow Fincher works, it’ll probably be a good 10 years before it comes out.