MILES TELLER, LIKE YOU, DOESN’T READ DIVERGENT BOOKS
MTV Movie Award Nominee Miles Teller
So, Divergent, occasionally known by the title I’m Sorry Dear Wasn’t This The Hunger Game You Wanted, I Still Have The Receipt If You Want To Return It has a new cinematic installment out soon, Insurgent, and the film’s stars are doing the promotion circuit. Miles Telller, a cast member whose star power has risen considerably between installments thanks to Whiplash, revealed that he’s in the dark as to what happens to his character going forward, as he hasn’t read the next book in the series, Allegiant. Speaking to MTV News, Teller said:
The way the second one leaves you — I ignorantly have not read ‘Allegiant’ so I’m excited to see what happens next. And it’s very easy to find out, but I don’t like to know those things. But at the end of the second one I was like sweet, I want to know what happens next. So I’ll see when I read the script.
It is pretty easy to find out, I’m sure a quick look at the Divergent wiki would tell him everything he needs to know. It does kind of make Teller look a little ambivalent to the franchise, considering a) by all accounts he has been brushing up on his reading for the Fantastic Four reboot and b) he has slightly more damningly said that Divergent ‘sucks‘ before. Young actors are walking this weird tightrope these days signing on to franchises in the hopes of making it big, making it big without the franchises, not really being interested in the franchises but being stuck with them. A pretty similar thing has happened with Jennifer Lawrence and the X-movies. I mean, it’s a tightrope where the safety net is made of millions of dollars, and so is the rope, and so is the circus tent, but still.
PIXELS TRAILER IS ON, SIMILARLY TO DONKEY KONG
Back in 2010, French film maker Patrick Jean put out the short film Pixels, a fun and nostalgic short featuring classic 8-bit video game sprites attacking a big city. The idea of it being extended to a full length film seemed a bit of a stretch, but could be quite fun, so the monkey’s paw that is Hollywood gave us that, but with Adam Sandler:
Whether Sandler and Kevin James signed up for this film because they thought they’d get to shoot on location inside a video game is unknown, but this initial look doesn’t seem to have the pair in full ‘fall down and fart mode’, and having an actor play Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani is definitely something I expected, so perhaps Pixels will end up being a loving homage to video games. It will be out this summer.