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A leaked Batman scene, an Apple murder mystery, and all the Spideys chit chat
I have… been just mostly watching the tennis this week!
🍿 What’s Shaking 🍿
🍿 South Australia’s very own director Justin Kurzel is attached to a new sci-fi feature called ‘Morning’ about a future where people use a pill to do away with sleep (what a dream). Laura Dern and Benedict Cumberbatch will star.
Elsewhere Sydney Film Festival opening film ‘Here Out West’ is released in cinemas this week!
🍿 A (stressful!) scene from the upcoming ‘The Batman’ was *leaked* so director Matt Reeves has released the entire thing online.
It starts at a funeral with Bruce Wayne kinda triggered by a little kid and then a car crashes into the church and a stressed man with a bomb strapped to his neck gets out of the car:
I think the general rumour is that the film is based on the comic ‘The Long Halloween’ which is probably my favourite bat comic apart from ‘The Killing Joke’ (which I think everyone loves anyway). If Twitter and the Internet are correct in that regard, I am very much looking forward to a detective/noir take on the Batman!
Separately, this profile in Esquire reports Reeves’ Batman was inspired by Kurt Cobain.
🍿 I have a soft spot for A24 films and shows (‘Zola’, ‘Euphoria’ ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’) and I’m super excited they’re developing a TV show based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s political/spy/mystery book ‘The Sympathiser’, which won a Pulitzer!! The book is about an undercover communist agent after the Fall of Saigon and his exile in Los Angeles, and apparently Robert Downey Jr is in it. They’re casting at the moment, and I did have a sticky beak at the bilingual script (English/Vietnamese) and I can confirm my Vietnamese reading skills are the equivalent of a five year old’s. Ie I can’t read that good 😂😂😂
Another Viet author and poet I like, Ocean Vuong, is also having his unforgettable (and extremely triggering) memoir ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ being made into a film by A24.
🍿 Do you reckon it’s worth getting Apple TV+ (YET ANOTHER STREAMING SERVICE) to watch this series about good looking people and murder?
🍿 Now that we’re well out of the ‘No Way Home’ Spidey zone, the three spider-men have finally given their first chit chat about the film. The chat covers things from why they decided to don the suits again (it’s “presence in service to Tom’s journey”) and they also talk about how all three put on their spidey suits and jumped around in front of the camera together:
The script for the film has been released, and here is the page of *that scene* 😭😭😭
🍿 Last Shakes 🍿
Jason Mamoa will be Fast 10’s villain. Studio Ghibli’s new theme park and Vin Diesel… meditating? An interview with Jon Watts. Netflix Byron Bae drama. Peter Dinklage on Snow White.
🐶 Pupdate 🐶
😂 I can’t deal 😂
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