HEADLINES

FINCHER'S FACEBOOK BEGINS CASTING
Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg have all signed on to star in David Fincher's Facebook movie. Timberlake will play Napster creator and Facebook president Sean Parker. Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin who was friends with the two, but once Facebook took off had a falling out with them. This sounds a lot like the Pirates of Silicon Valley film which was the story of Bill Gates. This is an odd choice of movie for Fincher, especially with the cast he has, but if anyone can make a Facebook movie work, I'm sure he can.




THOR ADDS TWO
Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore have joined the cast of Thor. Neither have very big backgrounds, Alexander's being Kyle XY and Feore most recently playing the First Man in the last season of 24. Alexander will play Sif, an Asgardian warrior and Feore will play a villain who is unnamed at the moment. I am really looking forward to seeing how this looks. I don't know much about Thor and his storylines, so hopefully this will turn out to be as good as Iron Man and will make the anticipation for the Avengers movie go up even more.



ADAM MCAY'S NEW FILM COMES TOGETHER
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and Steve Coogan have joined the list of big names for Mcay's new film The Other Guys. Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton and Damon Wayans Jr. are also starring. I'm getting tired of Ferrell and his repetitive movies, but with a diverse cast like this and with Mcay directing it has the potential to be one of Ferrell's better films.



PEOPLE REMAKING THEIR OWN REMAKES NOW?
David Cronenberg was behind the remake of The Fly starring Jeff Goldblum which was better than the original. I figured this movie would get remade like everything else in Hollywood but I didn't expect for Cronenberg to remake his own remake. Rumor has it that Cronenberg has great interest in doing an up to date version for Fox. I'm down with this only if Goldblum has a role in it. And if its not done by Fox.



HE-MAN LANDS AT SONY
Last month the rights to He-Man left Warner Bros. and now has found a home with Sony. If they could do a He-Man movie and make it with a Lord of the Rings type fill to it, this movie could be awesome. I loved the cartoons and toys when I was a kid and even the 80's movie pretty fun when I was a kid but I haven't seen it since then so who knows.



GHOST RIDER 2 MOVING FORWARD......UNFORTUNATELY
Yes, unfortunately Nicholas Cage is returning as Ghost Rider. A bit of good news is David S. Goyer, who is behind Batman Begins and The Dark Knight is rumored to be writting it. This movie does not need to happen. The character is so so but his villains are stupid. Throw him in as a cameo somewhere in another movie but please, leave these movies alone.



GEOFFREY RUSH BACK AS BARBOSSA
Rush has signed to come back as Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Hopefully Depp won't bail out due to Disney's Chairman Dick Cook being asked to step down. The two became very close over the three film course and Cook hiimself was the one who convinced Deep to take the role as Sparrow. I think taking the franchise in a new direction will be a great idea because the plots and storyline became way to complicated for what were supposed to be fun, action films.