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Saturday Trending Topics: Accidental Beetlejuice
Seth Grahame-Smith, creator of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, on the theoretical Beetlejuice sequel he's been working on, and the original: Beetlejuice was a wonderful accident. It has, of course, irreverence, visual inventiveness and daring, and it has subversive humour in it. Endless inventiveness. But, really, when they put it together, and Tim will tell you this, David Geffen will tell you this, and Michael Keaton will tell you this, that when they first put it together it just didn't work. That was a movie that miraculously and strangely came together in editing.
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Thunderbolts just leap frogged Avengers Academy as Marvel's best team book. Take that however you will, but as AVX is giving AA a contemplative turn, and New Mutants is seeing DnA start to shine brighter after Heroes For Hire, Thunderbolts has steamed past them.
Swipe File: Yes, You Are Right, He Looks Like Nightwing
And here's the proof, if proof were needed.
Alex Ross Designs For Flash Gordon And Ming The Merciless
He doesn't just do the covers you know. Alex Ross is instrinically involved with every issue of Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist and Ming The Merciless from Dynamite. As such, here are some descigns for both those series from his pen – and brush.
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It's been 22 years since Misery, Rob Reiner's one and only thriller. Most of his other really fruitful trips to the well were repeated, arguable with diminished results: The Princess Bride was followed by less successful post modern fairytale, North; mock documentary This Is Spinal Tap was followed by less successful short-form spin offs with the same characters; he even went back for more Aaron Sorkin, following A Few Good Men with The American President.
Seth Grahame-Smith is the creator of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, author of the original novel and credited writer of the feature film. Yesterday, I shared his illuminating comments on that picture and how it ended up coming together in just the way that it did.
UPDATE – Was That The Finest Chat Show Forty-Five Minutes In Living Memory?
Tonight on BBC 1, The Graham Norton Show (which will show next weekend on BBC America in the States) saw Graham joined by will.i.am, Miriam Margoyles and Greg Davies. It is possible that Miriam was only booked so they could do the mir.i.am joke.
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