Link Side Story
Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 5:40PM
Variety Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) profiled. We’re so proud of our friend
GQ on Joker and standup comedy always being terrible in movies
Pajiba why are so many movies right now based on magazine articles? Hustlers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and more.
MNPP is Taiki Waititi the hottest director right now?
More after the jump including 80s franchises up for grabs, West Side Story wrap, and Ryan Coogler...
THR why studios might start losing the rights to / and competing anew for iconic 80s era franchises
Variety Aaron Tveit on his return to Broadway in Moulin Rouge!
/Film Ryan Coogler to produce a Bitter Root movie based on the comic book involving the Harlem renaissance and a monster-hunting family
Variety France’s international comic hit The Intouchables has already had remakes in Argentina and in the US (the latter as The Upside) and a third remake is on the way, in Arabic this time.
Finally as you may have heard, production on Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story (2020) wrapped last week. Spielberg shared a few photos that we want to pass on in case you missed them, we'll start with the magical Rita Moreno and end with a huge cast photo. The movie opens in early December 2020.
Reader Comments (15)
It will be fantastic for Moreno alone.
Rita Moreno is a true living legend
Rita Moreno is ELITE!!!!! BE ELITE, BEING THE ELITE, BE ELITE, BEING THE ELITE, SUPAKICK PARTY!!!!
I just saw JOKER and I’m shook! Give Phoenix the Oscar!!! DeNiro was great too
"Is Taiki Waititi the hottest director right now?"
Agreed. Though I'm not mad at Andrew Haigh (Weekend, God's Own Country) or Robert Eggers (The VVitch, The Lighthouse) either.
In LA this weekend, there's yet another remake of The Intouchables in cinemas, this time from South Korea: Man of Men (or Perfect Man), with The Handmaiden's Cho Jin-woong and The Tower's Sol Kyung-Gu. Odd that they're all coming out within spitting distance of each other!
Hottest directors?
Taika ❤️
Robert Eggers (Oh, lord!)
David Fincher (will always be my daddy!!! 😍)
I hope not be misunderstood...
Todd Philips. 😱😳 Trash boy? Yes. But is hot as fuck!!!
Hottest directors too:
Barry Jenkins
Ryan Coogler
Spike Jonze
Yorgos Lanthimos
Tom Ford
Nadine Labiki
Melanie Laurent
Jay - Todd Phillips looks like my toe when I rolled it over with a shopping cart. Busted and oozing with disease.
Well, hopefully I speak for other as well as myself, but my attitude towards Spielberg's remake of West Side Story has been "why?". We'll see what he comes up with.
@Jay... I understand what you mean about Philips. He and Brett Ratner belong in a special sub-list I’d title: “Shut up and strip.”
Taika could definitely get it, but Barry Jenkins is my ultimate director crush. And YES to Ryan Coogler and Yorgos Lanthimos as well.
bey -- LOL. wtf?
everyone -- i think the winner of all time for hot-looking director is still CARY FUKUNAGA good lord. he could easily be a movie star.
beyaccount's post made me laugh out loud.
I agree on Taika and Spike Jonze, but Barry Jenkins is the hottest director right now. He has talent, style and personality to match his good looks.
Regarding the Pajiba article, I think longform journalism is having a moment and it can only be a good thing.