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Brian K. Vaughn Adapting Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’ For Showtime.
Brian K. Vaughn wrote some of my favorite episodes of LOST, but more important to most is that he is the writer behind Y: The Last Man. He can script with the fervor, thunder, et cetera. It is this thunder he’ll hopefully bring to his forthcoming Stephen King adaptation.
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Monday Morning Commute: Wartribe Anthem
Ahoy! How goes it, bros and babes of the OL Nation? It’s been awhile since I’ve danced aboard this burning ship of nerd-revelry, as I’ve needed some time off to lick the wounds inflicted during my stint as the OCTOBERFEAST emcee. But alas, I’ve returned to the command center, eager to help Caffeine Powered steer this conflagration-barge right into the hearts of the willing.
Whether its pounding in your chest or blackened by loss or fluttering amorously, we want you to open your hearts to the Omega Level. So come on, don’t just stand there! Hop aboard! ALL HANDS ON DECK!
This here’s the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, the weekly salvation-via-distraction show and tell feature. The fact of the matter is that the workweek sucks – we kill ourselves at jobs that date rape our spirits and then can’t even be bothered to drive `em home in the morning.
How uncouth.
To thwart forty-hours’ worth of ruin, we’ll take turns showcasing the bits of entertainment we use to ensure our souls’ chastity. I’ll go first, then ya’ll can hit up the comments sections and follow suit.
All together now.
Video: 1986 Infomercial For ‘Neuromancer’ Movie That Never Happened.
True fucking Gibsonite porn right here. A 1986 informercial for a Neuromancer adaptation that never came to be. It was intended to drudge up funding for the project, and features a gaggle of stars including a glorious 1986 version of the author himself.
J.K. Rowling Wanted To Kill Ron Weasley. Should Have Killed The Final Book Amirite?
I’m a fan of Harry Potter, but as the years have passed I’ve found the movies to be less and less magical and the final novel adequate at best. You know what could have made it more enjoyable for me? A little treat tossed towards my blood lust.
Set Photos: ‘The Hobbit’ Gets Some Shire Love.
Every once in a while I remember that The Hobbit is going down. I get momentarily excited before this fact drifts deeper into my unconscious again. Today I remembered!, courtesy of some quality set photos.
OCTOBERFEAST – Inferno
[OCTOBERFEAST is the greatest celebration of the year, a revelry dedicated to pop-culture’s most nutritious Halloween detritus. Plastic screams and artificial sweeteners have never been more bountiful. In the old country, villagers refer to the extended party as Satan’s Snacktime]
Like any worthwhile annual event, OCTOBERFEAST owes its greatness not only to the current torchbearers but also its precedent-setting pioneers. If not for John Carpenter, we’d be without Halloween and They Live. How many of us would’ve ever embraced horror if R.L. Stine hadn”t made it palatable to our impressionable little minds? Thanks to Stingy Jack, October evenings are dotted with the warm glow of orange monster-faces.
To all these heroes, and too many others to name, a token of appreciation must be gifted.
But there is another who deserves even more praise. This man has been dead for nearly seven hundred years, but without his poetry we’d be devoid of one of the most fundamental premises of our modern Hallow’s Eve festivities. In truth, had this dude failed to bang out his seminal work, we could very well be bereft of some of the world’s finest horror movies, metal songs, Hot Topic shirts, and ill-conceived biker tattoos.
The fact of the matter is that Dante Alighieri’s Inferno defined Hell with an attention to detail that had never before been conceived.
‘The Hunger Games’ Gets Character Posters. Awesome.
I’m stoked for ‘The Hunger Games’, especially with it starring Jennifer Lawrence. There’s been some character posters dropped, and I’m pickin’ up what they’re putting down.
‘The Dark Tower’ Movie and TV Project Back On. HBO Gets The Show.
The Dark Tower wunder-project is back on! It lives again. Courtesy of budget cuts and such. Not only is it back on, but HBO is snagging the television rights.
Ben Affleck To Direct ‘The Stand’ By Stephen King? Pissah!
I don’t have a very strong attachment to Stephen King, and I’ve never read The Stand. However I’ve been told I would like it, and I also enjoy myself some Ben Affleck. So I like this news.
Monday Morning Commute: Hope Above the Horizon
Babies and gents, please don’t forget this one fact. Hell, if you forget this, you’re really up the creek, `cause humanity’s been leaning on it since we done sloughed ourselves out of the primordial muck. Without this truism – no matter how you want to take it and run with it – we’re bound to fall face-first into the sludge of post-history and asphyxiate on the our own shortsightedness.
HOPE IS ABOVE THE HORIZON.
God? Space travel? Giant griffins that’ll swoop down, snatch us up with their pillowed talons, and nurture us in their super-nests? Could be. All I know is that we’re not going to actualize the potential of the collective unconscious by grinding ourselves down at jobs we hate.
So on that note, welcome to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE! This is the spot where I show off the various wares I’ll be using to safeguard my mind from ennui and work-related dementia. After you take a peek, hit up the comments section and share your own recipe for the Entertainment Cocktail de huit jours.
Faux-French? Goddamn, let’s just get to this.
