Charlie Kaufman's Latest Virtually Totally Spoiled, and 5 Other Tales You'll Be Talking About Today

Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition in the Broadsheet: Star Trek 2 is certainly going ahead (type of)… Honours-season can get raked inside the critical coals (again)… Apparent queries about Rachelle Lefervre… Andrew Breitbart’s classy tribute to Janeane Garofalo… plus much more. · The weekend introduced several updates regarding Charlie Kaufman’s next writing-pointing project Frank or Francis, the newsiest which is always that Kevin Kline look alongside Steve Carell, Jack Black and Nicolas Cage. I won’t give other activities away, save to convey the comfort is actually an abject, almost pornographic binge of plot and script spoilers it feels as though Kaufman is pranking movie authors into the very kind of behavior he apparently desires to lampoon. It’s got to become trick, right? And anyway, wasn’t Kaufman’s unpredictability always stated to become a fundamental element of his appeal? Did I miss the memo saying it’s OK to supply his whole movie away before it’s even shot? Anyway, numerous spoilers follow at both of these links, that people provide just like a both determined by policy together with a sincerest promoting to guard your Kaufman-viewing experience by never clicking. [Variety, The Playlist] · Star Trek co-film author Roberto Orci opened up up up just a little in regards to the progress in the approaching follow-up, that locations are presently being scouted. Type of related: You know what happens movie might be awesome? Bad Lieutenant Uhura: The avenue for call New Orleans. Consider the ass-kicking! The kinds of species! The rules! Anyway. [StarTrek.com via /film] · Why not obtain a week started right having a couple of passive-aggressive bitching in the.To. Scott? “I’m attempting to see Oren Moverman’s Rampart, freshly acquired by Millennium after finding some critical love in Toronto,” he produces in the new dialogues along with his NYT friend Manohla Dargis. “I’m also searching toward seeing what audiences type of The Descendants […] I’m less excited with the several days of speculation of a best actor face-off between George Clooney inside the Descendants and Woodsy Harrelson, the star of Rampart. Though in February, when one of these simple — or [Kaira] Pitt, or Leonardo DiCaprio, or any other person — lays at work the statuette, I'll clearly be watching.” Glad we’ve settled that. [NYT] · Today in apparent questions that apparently continue being negotiable: “Is Rachelle Lefervre condemned not to exceed Twilight?” I question! [LAT] · “Surprise! Whales and Jesus Beat Cancer and Dead Kids.” I guess that's another way of searching within the weekend box office. [Time] · Here’s noted, nuanced right-wing intellectual Andrew Breitbart calling Janeane Garofalo “Hollywood’s sympathy fuck.” Lovely. [Breitbart.tv]