Which Is Hotter?

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I was a little bit shocked to read that Wentworth Miller is turning 44 today, but so he is; I was less shocked to read that Zachary Quinto's turning 39; that seems about right. Anyway it's the birthday of two of the biggest officially homosexual actors in the biz - Wentworth did give up acting for a hot minute so he could write movies for Park Chan-wook, but he seems back to it. (It is insane that a new Prison Break is coming, you guys.) So let's superficially judge them!

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Back To The Boys Club

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It's been awhile since we heard anything about this movie (save some whispers that it's godawful); we posted about the US remake of the Belgian thriller The Loft, starring an abbreviated who's who of my manly fantasies (namely James Marsden, Karl Urban, Wentworth Miller, and Matthias Schoenaerts, the latter of whom's reprising his role from the original flick), way back in August of 2012 and noted at the time that we'd been hearing about it for quite some time before that. Anyway somebody decided to dust it off and drop it in January, and now there's a new trailer... and new trailer with the Best Money-Shot Ever! Okay second-best, given that with this movie's cast "Best Money-Shit Ever" could go to "All the male leads having an orgy" and we don't quite get that... but we do get...

... Margarita "Lisa P"  Levieva  exuberantly flinging keys in my boy Matty's face and swirling around with smirking vigor! And that brings me much, much, much, much, much joy. So I'll totally go ahead and post the new trailer just for that.

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Good Job, Wenty

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The Stoker screenwriter (that and his part on Popular are the only reasons I care) (well besides look at him) just came out as a big ol' homosexual, and politically too - he did it by publicly denouncing Russia's abhorrent anti-gay policies and rejecting an invitation to the St. Petersberg International Film Fest. Read his whole letter over at GLAAD's website. Somebody give him a blow-job tonight! Everybody give him a blow-job tonight!

Quote of the Day

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I'm trying to gather my still-frayed wits about me today to write some reviews of the movies I've seen over the past few days, which includes Stoker, Park Chan-wook's latest. But for now you could go read this interview at The Daily Beast with Stoker's screenwriter Wentworth Miller (yeah that Wentworth Miller); this is actually the first interview I've seen with him anywhere. Seems like he's keeping to himself. I found this bit interesting (and it's a little bit spoilery for the movie, although no more than the trailer was):

The Daily Beast: I know that the movie was written before we were having a national conversation about gun violence. But BuzzFeed’s Kate Aurthur has pointed out how, in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, one of the things that bothered her about watching the film was seeing a high school heroine obsessed with guns. I’ve asked other people in Hollywood about violence in films (Django Unchained, etc.), and the answer I usually get is that movies are different from reality. What are your thoughts about this? 

Wentworth Miller: What I can tell you is that beyond selling Fox Searchlight my original screenplay, I had nothing to do with the movie’s execution. The script was revised multiple times by multiple writers. Consequently, the end result is both mine and not mine. Which is how this business works. It’s collaborative. In my draft, Mia Wasikowska’s character wasn’t obsessed with guns. Fearing she might be a nascent Uncle Charlie, her father had tried to insulate her from violence and violent pastimes and anything else that could potentially trigger what lay beneath the surface.

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He also says that he actually had Matthew Goode in mind when he was writing the script (which surprised me since Goode only got the part after Colin Firth passed), and also that he's written a prequel to Stoker called Uncle Charlie that he'd love to see Goode reprise his role in. So basically, Wentworth Miller is obsessed with Matthew Goode, is what I'm taking from this. Can't blame him!

I Am Goode and Ready For Stoker

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It's only twenty-four days until Park Chan-wook's Stoker is out, y'all! Some lucky folks at Sundance have already seen it, and opinions were sorta all over the place, but opinions are usually all over the place with every PCW movie so I'm just waiting to see it with my own two good eyeballs myself. The Playlist has a few new images from the movie, although I've kinda reached saturation point with these things - I just want the whole enchilada now, yo. But looking at Matthew Goode ain't no crime.

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Still Stoked For Stoker

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The Playlist offers up a few new pictures from Park Chan-wook's Stoker, which debuted at Sundance this week to from what I can tell mostly very positive reviews (except at The Playlist, which they discuss at that link). We'll know for ourselves in just a few weeks! 

Actually I'll know three days before it's released in theaters because it's screening in Queens with Park in person! (Although for some reason the link at the Museum of the Moving Image has vanished.) So you know, go me. I'm awesome!

I'd Like A Key For This Loft Please

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It seems utterly beyond reason, completely unfathomable, that I've never posted on this movie until now, but here we are. Day late, dollar short. The movie of which I speak (now, not earlier, to my shame) is called Loft, and I will now list the people who star in Loft, and you will see why it's crazy I have never spoken of Loft: James Marsden, Karl Urban, Matthias Schoenarts, Wentworth Miller, and Margarita "Lisa P" Levieva. (There are a couple other people but these are the ones I care about.) OH MY GOD I KNOW. Just those first three alone are enough to make my brain explode but you add on Lisa P. and I am foaming at the mouth.

The film sounds like a mash-up of The Apartment with Very Bad Things - some guys share a loft space to use for mistress-humping, and when a dead chick turns up inside all bets are off!

Anyway it's a remake of a 2008 Belgian film that also starred Matthias Schoenarts, in the exact same role he's got here even. Anybody seen it? I need to know if I should see it first, or wait, or what. I feel like the Belgian one won't shy away from male nudity while this here Hollywood one might. Although judging from the trailer, perhaps I'm being quick to judge. Yup, there's a trailer, a NSFW one at that (via), which is what inspired this post...

And a quartet of promising caps from the trailer...

With A Friend Like Carrie

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I'm just going ahead and getting that title out of the way since it's so right there to be gotten away with. Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Pierce is currently remaking Carrie, much to the agita of us all. The Playlist's reporting that once she's done with that, she's going to remake another Movie I Love, the truly terrific 2000 French thriller With a Friend Like Harry. Harry introduced me to the unexpected sexiness (link NSFW) of the creep Sergi Lopez years before liquor seeped through his facial slit in Pan's Labyrinth. 

I was always pretty surprised that Harry never got remade before, so the only thing surprising me now is that it's taken this long for this to happen. Alright I suppose the fact that this remake was written by Wentworth Miller is also surprising, but less so since Park Chan-wook went and made a movie starring Nicole Kidman with the Prison Break star's words. What this is really telling me is I need to be friends with Wentworth Miller. He likes the things I like! It's meant to be.

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Good Morning, World

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That right there is one-time Brothers & Sisters star the openly gay Luke MacFarlane (I only mention "openly gay" because the thrill of the forbidden becomes slightly less forbidden and therefore slightly more thrilling when judging his still impossible but kind of slightly less so in a perfect world attainability) in a short film that was momentarily online the other day only to vanish at the request of its filmmaker once it had made the rounds called Erection - my kinda title! You can see more caps here from Luke's Erection (I just like saying it!), and you can see lots more caps o' Luke that I've posted before from other things here.

Erection is about Luke MacFarlane having trouble with 

his penis in front of a girl. Hey man, I feel ya.

No really - can I?

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Stoker Real Goode

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Haven't gotten a chance to watch this myself but you can't really go wrong with two and a half minutes of watching slash listening to the adorable Matthew Goode talk, no matter what it's about. When it's about Park Chan-wook's English-language debut Stoker, in which Goode co-stars with Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman, this is especially true. (via)

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Good Morning, World

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It's the 32nd birthday of the actor Luke MacFarlane today, so we're going to celebrate that by doing what we do. I've never been able to watch more than ten minutes of Brothers and Sisters but I know who MacFarlane is because, well, look at him. Also he plays a gay on the show and is a gay in real life, so we gays tend to take note of such matters. Hey remember when he was all "buddy buddy" with Wentworth Miller? Mmhmm. Anyway after the jump there's the usual blitzkrieg o' beefcake, so hit it.

I Am Link

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--- Winning With Walker - A few weeks ago I polled y'all to see who you thought should win the role of Abe in the upcoming movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. I admitted that Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker was my top pick, but in the end y'all picked Timothy Olyphant as your top choice, with Adrien Brody coming in second. Walker came in third. But then in real life he came in first, because he's been cast! So now he better not let me down, or y'all are gonna blame me I just know it.

--- Being Brienne - Since I was aware of the HBO series the entire time I was reading George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series I couldn't help but wonder to myself who the hell they could possibly cast as freckled giantess Brienne the Maid of Tarth every time she was featured. She's a huge player in the series, and one of the most unique sounding ladies I've ever heard described. This massive blond warrior woman repeatedly referred to as completely ugly by all those around her... actresses will just line up to play this part! Well Sean directed me to this post here wherein they find some actresses that could be possibilities. Interesting...

--- Gory of the 80s - How awesome was the year 1986 in horror? Aliens. The Fly. Demons 2 yo. Over at Final Girl Stacie's giving us the run-down and it is mighty fine.

--- The Hammy Games - The little girl whose name I cannot speak lest it get caught in my throat and choke me to death has expressed an interest out loud, in print, in playing the lead Katniss in my beloved Hunger Games. Must... not... write... thoughts... down... police... will... come...

--- Eves San Lowrent - A commercial directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Vincent Cassel? I would like that right now, actually.

--- Landing Park - A little bit of interesting casting spec going on with Park Chan-wook's next one - that'd be Stoker, the one scripted by Wentworth Miller under a pseudonym that was set to star Carey Mulligan and Jodie Foster. Well I guess scheduling has pushed both of those actresses off of it - Carey's gotta go make out with Michael Fassbender so you can't blame her; Jodie's gonna work with Roman Polanski so you can't really blame her either - but Mia Wasikowska, so terrific in The Kids Are All Right and looking great in Jane Eyre, is now circling it.

--- Lil' Goldie - Oscar expert and enthusiast Nathaniel Rogers gives us ten curious thoughts about this year's Oscar nominations.

--- In Time For Elevensies - The Hobbit Curse has dug its claws into Peter Jackson's tummy and the filming's going to be delayed a bit while he deals with a perforated ulcer. Shudder, that sounds horrible and painful. Get well, Sir Pete!

Also on the Hobbit tip, Saoirse Ronan has joined the cast. As the link points out, the book contains zero point zero zero females, so it'll be curious to see where she'll come in.

--- Meryl Nil - Over at Serious Film Michael C. gives us the why and the how of Tilda Swinton's becoming "The Anti-Streep." and it all sounds about right to me. (via Nat)

--- Gimme the Giger - DH takes a look through some reports around the internet on how Ridley Scott's Prometheus might not be as far removed from the original Alien world as suspected. Hey it's got Fassy in it now, it could put lasers on the aliens heads and I'm still gonna watch it.

--- Spanish Flies - There's some news on the third [REC] film, including casting and a bit of a synopsis, right here. I've really enjoyed the first two and am dying to see where they spin this out to so I'll be paying attention to this.

--- Creepy Crawly - If you never got around to seeing director Carter Smith's 2006 short film Bugcrush then you really have been missing out on something special (here are my original thoughts on it) - thankfully TrG over at Post-Mortem Depression has posted the whole thing so you can fix your lack right now.

--- LOL Lola - Speaking of TrG, I don't think I ever properly linked to his review of The Loved Ones, which I only saw and loved because of his most noble effort. He makes the "Run Lola Run" gag I can't believe slipped by me, plus he talks about me a bunch. So of course it's all terribly awesome. In all seriousness it's a fine review go read it.
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Stoking the Stoker

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A couple of months ago word surfaced that Wentworth Miller had written a script and that Carey Mulligan and Jodie Foster were somehow involved. Now comes word that one of the finest directors working in the world says me, Park Chan-wook, is maybe looking to direct this script of Wenty's? Via LAT:

"Few directors get hardcore film fans excited as much as Park Chan-wook, the South Korean auteur behind the international favorite "Oldboy."

Now those fans could get to see Park direct an English-language movie featuring major stars.

According to two people familiar with the film, Park is in talks to direct "Stoker," a dramatic thriller about a young woman whose eccentric uncle comes back into her life after the death of her father.

"Stoker," you may recall, is the first film from "Prison Break" star Wentworth Miller, who penned the script in his other life as a screenwriter, and is being produced by Ridley and Tony Scott's company, as well as Carey Mulligan is playing the young woman, and Jodie Foster is costarring in the movie (the uncle part has yet to be cast, but it's likely to be a boldfaced name too, according to sources)."

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I Am Link

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--- The Hammer Is His Penis - Now this is what I'm talking about. They've released several images for Thor lately that I just haven't found interesting enough to post. Ooh here's a giant gold room with tiny little people standing around, and here's Tony Hopkins with a golden eye-patch... no, notsomuch. This new picture however has what I'm looking for: Chris Hemsworth's enormous self! (via)

--- Why Wyatt - And why not a fourth Evil Dead? I should just give up that ghost, shouldn't I? For the love of Ash, I can't. Anyway Sam Raimi's lined up another picture for after he does the Oz movie, presumably - an adaptation of Earp: Saints For Sinners, a graphic novel about the lawman fighting outlaws in some kind of futuristic wasteland. All this reminds me is that I still somehow haven't seen The Quick & The Dead from start to finish. How that's possible I have no idea. Then again, I've never seen For the Love of the Game either, but I don't feel guilty about that one.

--- Big Mouth Bill - This is just a reminder to myself to finally read this much-quoted interview with Bill Murray in GQ. Hey self! Remember this!

--- Riddle Me Joe - The rumor's been batting around for ages now, but a new tiny little tidbit of news pointing to the slight possibility of Joseph Gordon-Levitt maybe one day perhaps possibly playing the Riddler in a third Batman movie for Chris Nolan has reared its head, again. This time with 2% more substance!

--- Me Times Three - A couple of links to stuff I wrote elsewhere the past several days I've forgotten to link to: speaking of Joe, a lil' nod at The Film Experience to Joe Gordon-Levitt's maybe future musical movie. I also posted the trailer to You Again over there too. And then there's my weekly piece at Celebrity Beehive from last Friday that I somehow never linked to either. Head up ass, yo.

--- Bitch Went Down - Glenn made it to a pair of my favorite scenes from the original Scream film in his scene-by-scene dissection this week: Scene 9 where Gale gets a fistful of Sidney, and Scene 10 where our beloved bestie Tatum glories in it. Delightful.

--- Avian Bones - Do you think Marty Scorsese will give Emily Mortimer something to do in Hugo Cabret, now that she's been cast, since she had nothing much at all to do in Shutter Island? That would be nice, since she's capable of being so wonderful. Also cast is Michael Stuhlbarg from A Serious Man. Awesome, awesome cast.

--- Wenty's Secret - I've never had much use for perennial closet-case and Prison Break star Wentworth Miller - except maybe those times when he guested on Buffy and Popular - but if he really is a horror nerd writing horror scripts for Carey Mulligan and Jodie Foster on the sly, well, it makes him slightly more interesting.

--- And finally, my bud Sean wrote up his thoughts on his first time (!!!) viewing of Mullholland Drive this week and it's made me feel the need to revisit the film something fierce. I need to make the boyfriend watch it with me because he hated it when it came out, and that just cannot be allowed to stand. Anyway it's been a few years since I've watched it and it's definitely that time again.
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Vintage Image of the Day

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Wentworth Miller in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer

episode called "Go Fish", from the 2nd season.

Same episode as when we see Xander in a speedo!
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Wentworth Opens Wide

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Hmm. Maybe I should start watching Prison Break...

(more pics at JJ)

Wentworth... BJ?

What the hell is going on in this picture?

It totally looks like there's someone on their knees in front of Wentworth Miller... doing his business... while that other guy from the show watches and waits his turn.

Prison sex! Prison sex! I call prison sex!
(more over at JJ)
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