LIL’ SCOOPS
In the interest of freshening things up, Big Screen Scoop is going to start dishing up some little scoops that may be of interest.
- It’s been confirmed by Marvel as per previous Scoops that Ryan Coogler is officially directing Black Panther. If you’ve seen Creed, you know that’s some damn good news.
- It seems that the Mad Max series might be heading off to Valhalla, shiny and etc. Despite talk of sequels and spin-offs since it came out last year, George Miller has said that after the difficult experience of making Fury Road, he won’t be doing any more. MEDIOCRE!
- Jamie Foxx has been cast in the upcoming Robin Hood: Origins movie, which will definitely be as good as every other movie that’s ever been slated to have ‘Origins’ in the title. He will be playing Little John, a character once played by a cartoon bear, so shut up racists.
DISNEY RIDIN’ SOLO, RIDIN’ SOLO, RIDIN’ SOLO
Han Solo, the space-faring icon of the 70s and 80s everyone was upset about leaving us until **** got too real this week, is getting a spin-off movie about him as a young man. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are set to have a hand in it, as they do in every movie in recorded history, including that one you made with your significant other that you think no one else knows about. Lord and Miller know. They told me. You disgust me.
All that aside, Disney have narrowed down a supposed list of 2500 actors, to arrive at a shortlist of “about a dozen”, with Variety naming names. This list includes Emory Cohen, most recently seen affabling up in immigrant story Brooklyn, Dave Franco, Ansel Elgort, Scott Eastwood (wrong son of crotchedy actor Disney!), Logan Lermon, Jack Raynor and this charming rogue:
In all honesty, Miles Teller wouldn’t be a bad choice to play Han Solo; contrary to the archetype he’s most often shoe-horned into, Solo really isn’t much of a charming rogue, he’s shifty and belligerent, qualities that Teller has on screen and off. There is an alternative solution, but sadly we’re never going to get that. Watch this space to see which kinda handsome, kinda pasty actor gets the nod and take joy in the real fun we have ahead of us: watching Harrison Ford getting asked about it and getting all annoyed.
IT PUTS THE HOUSE ON THE MARKET OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN
You might think people would enjoy living in some movie memorabilia, but apparently Scott and Barbara Lloyd, occupants of the house that Buffalo Bill operated of in Silence of the Lambs, are having a spot of bother getting people to buy the property, and have been forced to drop the asking price by $50,000.
The house was originally put on the market for $300,000, but a lack of interest has forced a price drop. Apart from people not wanting the publicity, the owners admit that there is only one bathroom for the four bedroom house. But sure, you could just use that pit down the basement as a bathroom, couldn’t you? Let’s hope the house eventually sells, although if you’re walking by the Pennsylvania property and you see the Lloyds struggling to move their furniture into a van, this is all an elaborate trick and you should run far away.