– The Philip K. Dick adaptation “The Adjustment Bureau” has added three new cast members in the shape of Daniel Dae Kim (Jin on “Lost”), John Slattery (Roger Sterling on “Mad Men”) and Michael Kelly (“Dawn of the Dead”). They join leads Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, who play a congressman and a ballerina who fall in love, only to find that a mysterious organization, the Bureau of Adjustments, are trying to separate them.
George C. Nolfi, writer of “The Bourne Ultimatum,” is directing, and Anthony Mackie and Shohreh Aghdashloo also feature in the cast. Blunt recently talked to MTV about the movie, saying “It’s like a modern love story, but it’s got an ominous sci-fi backdrop to it. It’s going to be exciting and disconcerting and strange, which is what I like about [Dick’s] work. It’s very cool and clever. It’s got a really tight script.”
– Sam Mendes is eyeing a stage musical adaptation of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which his company Neal Street Productions will produce. Excellent Scottish playwright David Greig will write the book, while super busy composer and lyricist duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (“Hairspray”, the upcoming “Catch Me If You Can”) will provide the tunes. It’s got to be better than the Burton version, surely?
– In a widely expected piece of news, it was announced yesterday that Christopher Nolan’s enigmatic blockbuster “Inception” will get a simultaneous IMAX release when it hits screens on July 16 next year. The IMAX Corporation’s press release seems to suggest that “Inception” has been shot entirely on standard format film, unlike “The Dark Knight,” saying that the film “will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience with IMAX DMR technology.” But then, we know so little about this right now that Nolan could have shot half the film on Super 8 and we’d be none the wiser.
– Annie Clark, better known as St Vincent (whose album Actor is still one of the best of the year) talked to Pitchfork about her collaboration with Bon Iver on the “New Moon” soundtrack. She reveals that the song wasn’t written for the soundtrack, but came instead from the artists: “Justin [Vernon] and I met at Bonnaroo, and it turns out we were both fans of each other. Afterward, we got to talking about doing some kind of collaboration. He had this song that he’d been kicking around, and he sent it to me. It was beautiful, as you can imagine. I ended up working on it with him, and then it turned out that the ‘Twilight’ people were interested in the song being on their soundtrack”. The soundtrack hits October 20, and we fully intend on borrowing a copy from our 12-year-old cousin.
– The first trailer for Breck Eisner’s remake of George Romero’s “The Crazies” has hit over at Apple, and despite featuring plenty of actors we like very much, like Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell and Joe Anderson, the movie looks like a fairly generic zombie-type film. Oh, and ‘Mad World?’ Really? “Donnie Darko” was almost a decade ago, guys…