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(click to embiggen) Here are a pair of vintage Channing Tatum photos from back in his modeling days via the fashion photographer Matthias Vriens (follow him here), who's always so generous with sharing old way-back snaps of note -- see one previously posted here of Channing, and then there is of course the greatest photo-shoot that Taylor Kitsch was ever involved in... anyway good morning, everyone! It is a Monday! Boo hiss et cetera. Channing's got what we need to melt the boos away...

Taylor Kitsch Five Times

I don't have any idea why this is -- perhaps the pandemic has finally and irrevocably murdered my brain, haha ha sigh -- but for some reason I have really been wanting to re-watch John Carter lately? I wasn't one of the people who gave it a good review even against its general floppage in 2012; I was super excited as a fan of the books and sadly thought the movie was pretty low-grade trash when I did finally see it. But a decade's passed and my expectations have entirely dissipated so maybe now I can find something fun amongst its rubble? Am I just dooming myself to failure again? I'd say that staring at Taylor Kitsch here has never been a bad time in itself but my original reaction to JC proves that a fallacy. Anyway I am sure I will watch it soon, the need is weirdly nagging me, so I will report back. For now enjoy these new photos of Taylor, still gotting it, for Esquire -- I guess he's got some new projects coming out or something, who cares, hit the jump for the pictures...

Pics of the Day

Well this is news to me -- last year I posted several times about a forthcoming WWII-set television program called Shadowplay that would star Taylor Kitsch, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael C Hall, Sebastian Koch, and best of all the great Nina Hoss, created by the folks behind the show The Bridge. Well apparently the entire damn thing already played on German TV? And not recently either -- it played way back in October! Not sure if I have any German readers but if any of you did catch the show please, share! 

I only found this information out today as I stumbled upon these photos of Taylor & Logan, all period-costumed up, looking sharp as expected. Otherwise I haven't heard a peep about the program, quality-wise. Looking at these photos though, I'm not sure I entirely care about the quality... besides the quality of the menfolk I am staring at, which is already very very high. Anyway I will try to be better -- be best, even! -- on further news regarding a US release of the show, if such news should make itself known.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

A Most Wanted Man (2014)

Dieter: After 24 hours of questioning, Karpov
confessed to taking part in attacks on gas pipelines,
transport,  infrastructure, police stations.
Irna: After 24 hours of Russian questioning,
any one of us would admit to anything.

I've never seen this movie but I wanted to wish Nina Hoss a happy birthday and I couldn't find any quotes from the two movies where I became a "Nina Hoss Fan" which are her two with the great Christian Petzold, Barbara and Phoenix. She's so great!

So this Anton Corbijn film it is. Anybody seen it? Does she have anything to do? I'm seriously looking forward to her forthcoming WWII series Shadowplay co-starring Sebastian Koch, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael C. Hall, Tuppence Middleton, and Taylor Kitsch, from the creator of The Bridge. No word on when we'll get that show but hey look IMDb has a poster:

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I guess I need to go back and watch Prometheus because I don't remember this shot from it at all? That seems improbable. My brain blacking out this shot, I mean. Anyway a happy 43rd birthday to Logan Marshall-Green today -- the last thing I saw him in (or that is the last thing I remember seeing him in, apparently) is Leigh Whannell's bone-breakingly awesome actioner Upgrade (my review) but I know he's co-starring in an incredibly cast post-WWII thriller television show set in Germany called Shadowplay that I cannot wait to see -- it will co-star Nina "The Boss" Hoss and Sebastian Koch and Michael C. Hall and Taylor Kitsch, and I also know  thanks to his Instagram that he's been directing his own movie, one that stars Ethan Hawke, and which is coincidentally out today. So he's busy. We don't need to worry about Logan Marshall-Green.

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I'm sure if I felt like diving through our Taylor Kitsch archives here on the site I'd find I've posted this photoshoot before, it's rather dated, but I don't feel like any of that and nobody cares, so let's move on -- yesterday there was news not just on Taylor, who's seemed somewhat AWOL as of late (I didn't watch Waco) but also writer-director Neill Blomkamp, who's seemed more or less the same, not having made a movie since Chappie in 2015. (Blomkamp has been trying to get a couple of series reboots, Alien and then Robocop, off the ground  to no avail.) They're teaming up to make something called Inferno, a sci-fi thriller about an FBI agent who's investigating a crime in the desert of New Mexico and stumbles upon something extraterrestrial yadda yadda "a humanoid beast" is mentioned. Sure great shoot it I'm there.

Stephan James Ten Times

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Stephan was photographed and interviewed for The Last Magazine back in February, you can read the chat at this link -- it's mostly about If Beale Street Could Talk, which... remember Beale Street? Damn that was a fine movie. Go re-watch it right now and get back to me and I'll do the same. (I need to buy the soundtrack, now that I'm thinking about it.) Anyway next up for Stephan is the action movie 21 Bridges with Taylor Kitsch and Chadwick Boseman, while next up for the rest of us is hitting the jump to stare at the rest of this fine photo-shoot...

Let's Play in the Shadows with Logan

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Did any of you watch The Bridge, that Texas-set crime-drama starring Demián Bichir and Diane Kruger? I never did but I'm curious if it was any good now that its creator Måns Mårlind is working on a new show and he's lined up yet another killer cast. It's called Shadowplay and it's set in Berlin in 1946 and will be about an American cop, played by Taylor Kitsch, coming to town to set up some post-WWII law and order -- it already sounds like a Western and a Noir all at once right? (Thx Mac) Logan Marshall-Green, seen up top, will be playing a Nazi-hunter; joining those two will be Michael C. Hall...

... as well as German actors Sebastian Koch (who will forever and always be the Sexy Nazi in Black Book to me) and no less than Nina fucking Hoss, world-class actress of Christian Petzold flicks Barbara and Phoenix fame. Funny enough both of them have been seen on Homeland recently -- if you need good representatives of Germany look no further! (Hey maybe Alexander Fehling can show up too? Pretty please???) Anyway we'll keep our eyes on this one but for now let's just keep our eyes on Logan Marshall-Green, with five more pictures after the jump...

Stephan James Three Times

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These are via Vanity Fair, where there's also a brief chat with Stephan about If Beale Street Could Talk and Homecoming, his two big hits of this past year, plus the action movie he's doing next called 17 Bridges that co-stars Chadwick Boseman and Taylor Kitsch. 

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Great Moment in Movie Shelves #106

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The trailer for American Assassin came out nearly a month ago and I'm sure any of you Teen Wolf fans got your Dylan O'Brien fix from it then, but I only just now got around to watching it myself and why didn't any of you tell me he had a great big bushy beard and worked out shirtless in front of bookcases in it???

I would've watched the dumb thing a month ago if I'd have known that. It looks pretty cheesy, but not as cheesy as that action movie they made starring Taylor Lautner, so who knows. It's got a decent cast - Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, and Taylor Kitsch...

... all co-star. Watch for yourselves 

if you missed it or whatever:

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I Will Follow You, Taylor Kitsch

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The Dowdle Brothers, the directing duo who made the decent US remake of [REC] called Quarantine and the decent Paris Underground horror-thriller As Above So Below (my review) are lining up a more prestigious gig for their next gig - they are making a miniseries about the 1993 stand-off in Waco, Texas between David Koresh and his cult of Branch Davidians and the FBI, and it will star Taylor Kitsch as Koresh and Michael Shannon as the lead FBI negotiator. Koresh was a good-looking guy (you know how them cult leaders be) so I don't immediately scoff at casting pretty-boy Kitsch as him, but I'm not sure it's the right kind of pretty?

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Collider says that this would make for a great subject for a season of American Crime Story but I can't see Ryan Murphy & Co. being that interested in the police aspect. I mean who would Sarah Paulson even play? (Oh my god Sarah Paulson should play Koresh.)

Anyway the series will be based on a pair of books, A Place Called Waco by a former member of the cult and Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by the dude that Shannon is playing. It's weird that nobody's really taken on this subject before right? I mean besides Tim Daly, of course...

Rock Hard Granite

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We're overdue a 21st Century version of Backdraft -- and by "a 21st Century version of Backdraft" I mean "a movie where fetishized hunky firefighters take long communal showers and have sex on top of their fire-engines, you know, the meaningful stuff" -- so today's news of the movie titled Granite Mountain is hitting me in the right spot. The film, directed by Tron's Joseph Kosinski, already had such stalwartly hunky names as Josh Brolin and Taylor Kitsch and James Badge Dale attached, but today it adds a pair of sweet-cheeked fresh-faces to its roster - seen above that's Alex Russell (once of Chronicle, more recently of "making out with Sullivan Stapleton" fame) and down below that's Ben Hardy (he was Angel in the new X-Men movie but more importantly he got sweaty on a pummel-horse for a photo-shoot). Shouldn't they be hiring people who puts fires out, not start them?

Which is Hotter?

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Even if his season of True Detective turned out to be somewhat of a disaster it still gave us the part where Taylor Kitsch hid his boner under a towel, so I wouldn't call it a wash, and if you ask me his most exciting project ever is still to come when he co-stars in Xavier Dolan's next movie -- something I reported Dolan to be pretty keen on, wink wink, several years ago. Point being, things could still turn around for Taylor, and if nothing else, he still looks like Taylor Kitsch. Seems every year on his birthday I ask y'all to choose which fetishized costume he looks better in - he's worn a lot of them! This year we'll go with his two recent queer roles, cuz why not.

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Kitsch Is His

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Back in March of 2013 I saw Xavier Dolan do a Q&A at the Museum of Modern Art here in New York, and he was asked about upcoming projects (this was around the time Laurence Anyways was getting its US release, which in the timeline of Dolan movies... oh who knows, the timeline of his movie releases is too confusing) and he mentioned the project that's turned into his next movie, The Death And Life of John F. Donovan. Donovan will be Dolan's English-language debut & it'll film in Spring & it's already set to star Jessica Chastain, Kit Harington, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates & Adele. 

Anyway I bring up that MoMA talk way back when because he really wanted the movie to also star Taylor Kitsch - you should've seen his eye glimmer when he talked about Taylor Kitsch, you guys. And today comes the news that the movie will also co-star Taylor Kitsch! Hooray for Xavier! Dreams really do come true. 

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... climbing Mt. Momoa.

"I'm gonna blow!!!" should be what we're all thinking looking at these pictures of Jason via the photographer Patrik Giardino's website (thanks to Sean for the heads-up) -- I've seen some of these before (he shoots for Men's Health) but some are new and old or new they are all hot. The Hotness Certainty! It's math.

Giardino's site is a treasure trove of shimmering celebrity beefcake -- Hugh Jackman, Joe Manganiello, Taylor Kitsch, Kit Harington...

... and on and on; if you're anything like me you'll probably fall into the rabbit hole and not surface for hours. (By the way click these to emibbgen a bunch.) And after the jump I've got a select assorted assortment to share...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... having an end of summer pool party 

with vintage Taylor Kitsch!

It says a lot about what you'll see after the jump that these are the safest-for-work ones I can show, with full ass on display. These shots (via, thank you Henry!) were shot by the photographer Matthias Vriens McGrath and... ETA I don't think these are Taylor Kitsch after all! I did some searching and this photo-shoot's only a couple of years old (see here). Still this dude, whoever he is, is hot so we'll leave the pics -- ETA nevermind that nevermind! Photographer Matthias Vriens McGrath himself says they are indeed Taylor! (Thanks Anon!) And that's the last time I am editing this post. Y'all decide for yourselves once you hit the jump for the NSFW sweet stuff...

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I feel as if I had something clever to say about True Detective when I was thinking about it in the shower this morning getting ready for work, but like so much - including the dialogue for this second season - it just slipped away like so much watery nothingness. I made it about halfway through this week's episode before passing out and I think, just like that, I might be done. 

I was willing to give it a chance this year even though I ended up hating last year because I love Colin Farrell, but he's got nothing to do - nobody has anything to do, because nothing is all there is. And yet Taylor Kitsch looks good in his underwear (or mostly naked, like in the first episode) so I'll keep my eye peeled for that much. 

And hey Fargo's back soon! That is actually a good show!

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I haven't actually even watched last night's second season premiere of True Detective myself yet but I keep my ear (is that my ear though?) to the ground and so I knew that Taylor Kitsch would be showing off some bum therein -- although boner was a surprise! (Boner is always a surprise) --  and god forbid I wait until I have a chance to see the episode properly to spoil a bunch of it for myself by fast-forwarding through it to find said bum and share said bum as quickly as my capping fingers can make it happen.

You guys can go ahead and tell me in the comments if you think I will like what I see... I mean I like what I am seeing right this moment, I like the Taylor Kitch nudity very much. I mean the other stuff surrounding it - the show itself, that is. I've seen opinions all over the map.

(Hello.) I ended up hating the first season of True Detective, as you might recall; it started out interesting - and it had some very fine film-making going on all through it - but McConaughey's a clown and Nic Pizzolatto's a garbage writer and it devolved into nonsense by the end. But I am curious about #2 because save Vince Vaughn I like the cast. So tell me what you thought, and if you think I will like it.

I Am Link

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--- Big Gay Something - Say what you will about Judd Apatow (which was very easy for me in the wake of the godawful excruciating This is 40) but he's really taken to using his Hollywood powers for good, putting his muscle behind getting interesting female voices (Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer) out there, and now he's doing the same for The Gays - he's producing a big comedy that Girls star Andrew Rannells is writing with his (super hot) boyfriend Mike Doyle. Deadline doesn't mention the fact that Doyle & Rannells are together but I sure as heck-fire will. Anyway I go back and forth with Rannells (he can make me laugh, but at what cost?) but this sounds big-leagues, outside of the usually awful gay movie-making ghetto, so we should pay stand to attention. There's no word on what the damn thing is about, though.

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--- More Super - Although they proved they can make great sequels to movies that didn't need a sequel with the Toy Story films, I feel safe in saying that the only Pixar movie that's ever begged for a sequel is The Incredibles (still my favorite Pixar movie) so hearing that Brad Bird is working on the script for The Incredibles 2 finally has me very smiley inside. And outside! And in between! I don't know what that means exactly, just go with it.

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--- After Darth - Hayden Christensen has signed on to play the legendary pool party game inspiration Marco Polo, in an apparently big-budget fantasy epic co-produced with China. Rob Cohen, the auteur behind The Fast and the Furious as well as this year's epic J-Lo-in-danger flick The Boy Next Door, is directing. And I love that THR says that Christensen has got "a reputation for being choosy" with this news. Choosy like fucking store-brand peanut butter.
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--- Who's True - The first trailer for the new season of True Detective has dropped, and it's a bunch of famous people walking around, staring, and shoving. Totally accounted for is Colin Farrell and Colin Farrell's gigantic mustache, though. The show's back in June, which surprised me; I figured the wait (as much as I am "waiting" for this and not "dreading" it, give my less-than-enthusiastic reaction to the first season) would be slightly longer.
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--- Dark Wings - Here's a bunch of superhero movie junk that dropped today in one quick swoop - here's the first good look at Jamie Bell in full Thing rock regalia in the Fantastic Four reboot; it is indeed criminal how they are covering up that adorable boy again. Here's some concept art of Bryan Singer's new favorite twink Ben Hardy in angel wings for the new X-Men movie, proving we were all correct in assuming that boy was Angel to a tee. Oh and there's a glimpse of Daredevil's red costume in this new teaser; I think it looks unbearably silly but I guess no more so than every superhero costume's ever looked on a real human being.
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--- Billy Boys - I've apparently been very very bad keeping up with the casting on Ang Lee's new movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - we caught it when that cute newcomer Joe Alwyn got cast in the lead, but according to The Dissolve since then the names that have also signed on include Steve Martin, Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund, and now Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker. Wowza what a weird fascinating cast.
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--- The New Flesh - A few months ago I wrote a post about all the Frankensteins that were about to be coming our way - well we've just gotten our first glimpse of the Monster that inspired that post: STYD has the first picture from Bernard "Candyman" Rose's Frankenstein, which stars pretty pretty boy (not looking too pretty there though!) Xavier Samuel as the big bolted lunk in a modern retelling of the tale, with Carrie Anne-Moss and Danny Huston as the Doctors who make him that way. The movie premieres in Brussels at their film fest this weekend.

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--- Her Hotel - I've probably missed some announcements since I last posted about Matthew Bomer & Cheyenne Jackson and then Wes Bentley all booking leading roles in the upcoming season of American Horror Story but I do believe that yesterday's word that Kathy Bates is coming back gives us our first Grande Acting Dame of the show. (No, Gaga does not count.) Ryan Murphy says she's "running the hotel" so I hope that makes her the main character a la Lange. Also I hope she holds a sledgehammer at some point.
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