Earlier today, I saw a “No Standing” sign that had fallen over in the street.
I just found that amusing, is all.
Day: June 21, 2006
I guess I’m one of a very small handful that liked the 2003 version.
From the Sci-Fi Wire:
Josh Hartnett, who once starred in 40 Days and 40 Nights, is now in final negotiations to star in the vampire drama 30 Days of Night for Columbia Pictures…
And in other news, other actors who’ve starred in movies with nouns in the title will soon star in films with — get this — other nouns in the title. Crazy, huh?
I’m not sure exactly what we’re supposed to make of this? Is it some kind of math problem, Sci-Fi? If Josh Hartnett’s career leaves the station traveling 30 miles an hour…
While I don’t at all agree with her characterization of either Ursula K. Le Guin or Studio Ghibli as “sadly lacking in humor, appealing characters, or a coherent plot,” Abigail Nussbaum does have a good point when she asks
…can I just ask why, in light of the furor that met the Sci Fi Channel’s decision to cast their version of Earthsea with white leads, hasn’t there been a similar uproar at Studio Ghibli’s decision to do the same?
Most of the characters in the Earthsea books — the second of which I’m actually reading right now — are quite clearly not white. And that’s understandably very important to many readers and Le Guin. I understand that this is first, and perhaps foremost, a Japanese film for Japanese audiences, and there just aren’t a whole heck of a lot of Japanese people with the copper-colored skin of most of the Earthsea characters. And I haven’t read the book, or books — it appears to be a mix — on which the movie is based. But the trailer is still fairly disappointing.