I know, I know, we’re really running this whole The Town/Bawston thing into the ground.  Still, this mash up of Star Wars and The Town, courtesy of these guys, just couldn’t be denied.  That Dahth Vadah, he’s a real fackin’ hahd on. The irony of all this is that Mark Hamill actually does like to have a good cry at the nail salon.  I also like that they made sure to get Peter Poslethwaite’s line in there.  Aside from being a great actor and totally freaky looking, that guy has one of the best names in Hollywood.  My dream is that he would one day marry Imogen Poots after she gets married and divorced from Benedict Cumberbatch. “Shoyne ya boots, guv?  Oy’ll make ya Daisy Roots clean as da Queen’s undacrackaz, oy wiw, ‘relse moy name ain’ Imogen Poots Cumbabatch Postleffwaite.”

(*crosses hands behind head, leans back in desk chair*)  Yeah… That would be somethin’.

[Thanks to Mark for finding the video, and Frotcast Brendan for making the poster]

Granted I have a bit of a thing for curmudgeonly old men, but in this recent, rare interview with The Wall Street Journal, No Country for Old Men/The Road/Blood Meridien author Cormac McCarthy provides plenty of evidence of his own awesomeness.  That’s not an opinion, it’s objective fact.  Here are some of the highlights, although I’d recommend reading the whole thing.

WSJ: People have said “Blood Meridian” is unfilmable because of the sheer darkness and violence of the story.

CM: That’s all crap. The fact that’s it’s a bleak and bloody story has nothing to do with whether or not you can put it on the screen. That’s not the issue. The issue is it would be very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary. [Editor's Note: I always thought Blood Meridien seemed much more movie-adaptable than The Road]

Besides Coca-Cola, the other thing that is universally known is cowboys and Indians. You can go to a mountain village in Mongolia and they’ll know about cowboys. But nobody had taken it seriously, not in 200 years. I thought, here’s a good subject. And it was.

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