The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Title Sequence (David Fincher Version)

Nine Inch Nails - March Of The Pigs (Unclean Live)

TRENT REZNOR & KAREN O // Immigrant Song

Aww come on Trent… Get excited about something!

Trent Reznor has been developing his “Year Zero” album into an apocalyptic sci-fi HBO series for a couple years, and things are finally moving forward.

Based on the 2007 album by Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails, the concept recording criticizes the U.S. government — specifically the Bush years — and presents a dystopian vision of the year 2022. Reznor has already adapted the album into an alternate reality game. [THR]

When last we talked about it, Carnivale‘s Daniel Knauf was writing the pilot.  No word on if he’s still involved, but HBO and BBC Worldwide Productions have hired a writer for the entire series:  Jim Uhls.  He wrote the screenplay adaptation for Fight Club, one of the few screenplays I thought turned out better than the book.  He also wrote the screenplay for Jumper, which he should probably mention on his resume in 8 pt font underneath Fight Club in 30 pt font.  Hopefully this HBO show will also be worthy of 30 pt font.  You don’t want Trent Reznor disappointed in you.  We heard he’s got a pretty hate machine.  Don’t know what it does, but it sounds dangerous.

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Trent Reznor and Karen O cover Led Zeppelin’s The Immigrant Song for the trailer of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.  It is sizzling.

Just a clip. Can’t find the full song yet. Trent Reznor AND Karen O AND they’re doing Zeppelin??? That’s just too much!

Trent Reznor and Karen O- Immigrant Song

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES:

Commissioner Gordon portrayer Gary Oldman offers this vague - but exciting! -update:

“I have not read the script, but I have spoken to Chris Nolan about the story. I think it’s fantastic. You think… you can’t top The Dark Knight, but I think he may have.”

Oldman also said he joins the rest of the cast in May for the start of principal photography. [The Daily Blam]

AVATAR 2:

Michelle Rodriguez says the sequel will take place underwater, although it isn’t at all clear how she would know this, considering the movies are still years away, James Cameron tends to be ultra-secretive, and her death in the first movie makes it weird that she would be privy to exclusive information about the sequel. Indeed, she might well just be repeating Cameron’s own vague statements about exploring Pandora’s oceans in the second movie. [The Hollywood Reporter]

IRON MAN 3:

Newly confirmed director Shane Black reportedly discussed the movie at the Omaha Film Festival. There are no direct quotes — so take all of this with a grain of salt until we get some sort of more official confirmation, but the initial reports are intriguing. Black reportedly confirmed that he is writing the script, and that this movie will do away with the already tired element of two men in metal suits fighting each other which we saw in the first two films. In fact, Black supposedly likened this third movie to Tom Clancy movies like Patriot Games or Clear and Present Danger, saying Iron Man will take on real world - or at least, more realistic - villains this time around. Black also reportedly stated that there will be no other superheroes in the movie, and the crossover elements will be confined to The Avengers movie(s) from here on out. Again, none of this should be considered official until we get some corroborating sources, but honestly…so far, I like where this is going. [First Showing]

PROMETHEUS:

Star Noomi Rapace confirmed the movie’s connections to the Alien series, and she said the shoot will last as long as six months. She also offered these details on her character Elizabeth Shaw, and how she compares to Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley:

“She’s definitely her own [character]. She’s a scientist and is very bright. “She’s a believer. I think there are some similarities, but she’s very much her own. I don’t think people will compare her so much to Ripley once they see the movie.”

[MTV Movies Blog]

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz costar Rafe Spall has reportedly been cast in a “big role”, which most likely means he’s a crew member on board the ship. [The Daily Mail]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER:

Trent Reznor confirmed that he’s scoring the movie and that he will be playing Jack Barts, the vampire who kills Lincoln’s mother. But, he explains, that cameo was supposed to be a secret:

“While discussing the film with Timur he started gently pressing me to play a small role in the film. The idea was a cameo-esque role that would be kept under wraps and be a surprise around opening night. I was considering this when I awoke a few days ago to the news I am now STARRING in ALVH (which is obviously not true). F—-. We both apparently forgot the internet existed AND THERE ARE NO SURPRISES anymore. So… do me a favor and act surprised, OK?”

[Nine Inch Nails Forum]

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS:

Star Robert Downey, Jr. explains how Jared Harris’s Professor Moriarty fits into the sequel:

“I think the trouble we ran into is in the books, they refer to him more than they actually see and hear from him, which keeps giving him more power. In a cinematic sense, that won’t work. In a book, that’s great. I think that was one of the struggles…He’s always considered to be the spider at the center of this vast web. We were able to play with the idea, in a period film, what if all of these conspiracies were true and what if they could all be linked to a single individual,” he explained. “And that’s what made it so great.”

[MTV Movies Blog]

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL:

Costar Simon Pegg says first-time live-action director Brad Bird is doing amazing things with the movie, and he also explains why this movie can still be creatively fresh despite being the fourth in the series:

“It’s a rebirth for the series. In the same way with what they’ve done with ‘Spider-Man.’ I feel like it’s a reinvigoration of this particular story. It was a series when it was on TV, so it’s a story that can have so many iterations. There are so many adventures to get into with this team of impossible mission fighters.”

There’s more at the link, including a ton of effusive praise for Bird. [Screen Cave]

FRINGE:

According to John Noble and Jasika Nicole, episode 19 finds Peter, Olivia, and Walter all incapacitated, leaving Astrid to save the day. Nicole says it’s this season’s most Astrid-centric episode. [Fringe Spoilers]

THE WALKING DEAD:

Here’s a report on how Frank Darabont is handling the gap in time between seasons:

Darabont wants Season Two to pick up immediately after Season One left off. He hates huge time jumps and wants his characters to be caught up in their current emotional state, reacting to what had just happened. He mentioned they’re on “puberty watch” for Chandler Riggs, who plays Rick and Lori’s son, Carl, as time passage may be a problem. They could always do the one year later thing once he actually begins to age. Unlike “LOST”, they’re not bound to the same time rules.

There are more details at the link, including explicit confirmation that Michael Rooker’s Merle is not the Governor. [Dread Central]

TRUE BLOOD:

There’s a ton of random details floating about and there’s no way we can get through them all, so we’ll do a quick roundup. Alan Ball confirms that Sookie and Bill will remain broken up, and that “[Bill’s] betrayal [of Sookie] is so deep that I don’t think she sees a way back from that”, joking it could taken “17 seasons” to complete their full story. He also strongly implied that Alcide is a much better match for Sookie right now. There’s a bunch more tidbits at the link. [TV Line]

Guest stars this season include the great Gary Cole (Office Space, Chuck, Harvey Birdman) and Harry Potter’s Aunt Petunia, Fiona Shaw, who plays the witch Marnie. Plus Bill and Sophie-Anne get locked in a “bite-off”, a now amnesiac Eric spends plenty of time with the fairies in search of his memories, and more at the link. [EW]

Sookie is actually locked in a “love pentagon” this year, with Bill, Eric, Alcide, and Sam making up the other points. In the six episodes already shot, she’s kissed two men so far, and Alan Ball hints that isn’t the end of the story. According to Ball:

“Well, I think certainly there’s an attraction [to Eric] that’s there on both their parts and she certainly meant everything she said to Bill at the end of last season. I think it’s going to be really hard for her to forgive Bill and move beyond that and Eric’s there and Eric is available. But things complicate the issue. Maybe something happens to Eric that makes him different from what she knows, and then don’t forget about Alcide and for that matter Sam. I don’t think he’s ever fully given up the torch he carries for her.”

Also, just to make things more insane, Ball says that the two kisses thus far don’t necessarily both take place in reality. [Fancast]

WONDER WOMAN:

Cary Elwes’s CEO character is reportedly called Henry Detmer, and he has an avuncular relationship with Diana…unless, you know, it turns romantic, which it totally could. [Daemon’s TV]

io9.com

We knew Wolverine: Origins director Gavin Hoodwas attached to a big-screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, but now the word is thatStar Trek/Fringe scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are shopping the script around Hollywood.

On Friday, Kurtzman tweeted, “Ender’s Game! Us(K/O), Oddlot, and Gavin Hood taking his amazing script to the town! Who wants some?” An Ender’s Game film has been in development for a while now (Wolfgang Petersen was attached to the project at one point), but having the writing team behind Transformers and J.J, Abrams’ Star Trek on board will likely assuage any worries that a film version of Card’s award-winning novel won’t be marketable.

[Spotted on Screen Rant]

http://io9.com/5747043/star-trek-writers-and-wolverine-director-pen-script-to-enders-game

I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS. I LOVE THE ENDER’S GAME SERIES. I’VE READ 8 OF THE BOOKS IN THE SERIES. THERE’S ONLY ONE I HAVEN’T READ BECAUSE IT WAS A LAME CHRISTMAS STORY OR SOMETHING. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT ON THE BIG SCREEN. HOWEVER, WOLVERINE: ORIGINS WAS A PILE OF SHIT. SO I DON’T WANT GAVIN HOOD, THE WOLVERINE:ORIGINS’ DIRECTOR, GETTING ANYWHERE NEAR THIS. HOPEFULLY HE CAN STEP UP TO THE PLATE THIS TIME!

THE SEQUEL TO ENDER’S GAME, SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD, IS MY MOST FAVORITE. I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE HOW THEY COULD ADAPT THAT TO FILM!

TRENT REZNOR IN A PINK HAT HASN’T DECIDED HOW HE FEELS YET.