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And, last but not least, WILLEM DAFOE SHOOTING ETHAN HAWKE WITH A CROSSBOW!
Below you can watch the newest trailer for The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the movie Wes Anderson email-directed, featuring voice work by handsome father figures George Clooney and Bill Murray, plus Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, and others. It looks like they’ve given this new trailer the full Wes Anderson treatment, by which I mean it has big yellow text and Rolling Stones songs. It’s not 3D or CG… and I like that. Not to mention, Willem Dafoe as a rat? He was born to play this role.
Warner Bros just released a second batch of character banners (first batch here) for the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. Prepare for another month of torture, because that’s how long it’s going to be until this comes out. This batch includes Alexander (voiced by Paul Dano), Douglas (Chris Cooper), Ira (Forest Whitaker), and Bull (Michael Berry Jr.).
The chicken guy is easily my favorite. It’s funny because chickens don’t have ears, you see. Also, I suspect “Ira” was originally supposed to be called “The Bear Jew” until Tarantino and Eli Roth stole it. And is it just me, or does Alexander kind of look like Willem Dafoe? They should’ve just made one of the Wild Things Willem Dafoe. That would be a way better book. “My mom was being mean and sent me to bed with no dinner, but I showed her, I snuck out the window and partied with Willem Dafoe.” The moral of the story would be that parents just don’t understand. But Willem Dafoe does.
(trailer below, to refresh your memory)
Directed by Werner Herzog and produced by David Lynch, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done [I liked it better when it had a shorter title] just released its first trailer (above). According to signonsandiego:
The project is based on the case of former University of San Diego student and Old Globe actor Mark Yavorsky, who in the late ’70s killed his mother with an antique sword in Pacific Beach, apparently acting out a role from a Greek tragedy.
That’s not a spoiler, by the way. The movie starts with the murder and then goes into creepy flashbacks. It’s Lynch and Herzog; would you expect anything else? Michael Shannon plays an actor playing Orestes in a play [Confused yet?]. Orestes, as we all know, killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon. *closes wikipedia page* After returning from a trip to Peru (interlaced with plenty of Herzog’s standard man-amongst-or-against-nature scenes), the actor experiences strange delusions that culminate in AWESOME SWORD RAMPAGE! OO WHA AA AA A!
Also, Michael Shannon’s creepiness manages to overshadow Willem Dafoe. Kudos, my good man. Here, let me put that lotion in the basket for you.
~ robopanda [Thanks to theplaylist for the tip.]
If you’re anything like me, you’re really tired of vampire stories and you’re muscular yet gentle, with an iron will and the courage of an eagle. But this isn’t your grandma’s vampire story. This one has John C. Reilly and Willem Dafoe.
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires.
16-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That’s the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty. [via Cinematical]
That’s right, Crepsley turns Darren into a JEW LAWYER. Or possibly a vampire. I don’t know, I never read the books.
