IESB Pushes Out Info On Daredevil Reboot

It appears a Daredevil reboot is currently being considered. We get the news from an interview IESB had with Tom Rothman. Below is the interview snippet that reveals this news. IESB: One of the brands that has made Fox a lot of money is Marvel. Recently, there was a reboot of the Hulk, which […]

It appears a Daredevil reboot is currently being considered. We get the news from an interview IESB had with Tom Rothman. Below is the interview snippet that reveals this news.

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I’m liking the leaner, meaner Law & Order: SVU

Filed under: OpEd, Law and Order, Reality-Free

Something was amiss during the last three seasons of Law & Order: SVU. With Mariska Hargitay’s pregnancy leave, changes in Christopher Meloni’s character, the introduction and departure of some cast members, and the demotion of Detective Munch to a desk, the show seemed to have lost its way. It was tough to watch as more melodrama seeped into the show and pushed away the criminal procedurals that have made this Law & Order franchise so popular.

However, change may be on the horizon. With the first two episodes of the tenth season now under their belt, there’s a feeling of normalcy that has returned to the show. A sense that the producers might be done tinkering with the program for the time being, despite the introduction of Michaela McManus as new A.D.A Kim Greylek. Some melodrama is still there - they’re human beings after all - but the cases are first and foremost for the show.

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Roger Ebert Talks to the Wachowskis

Somehow I missed this on Thursday, but apparently so did everyone else, since I didn’t see it linked anywhere. Roger Ebert was hanging out at a post-production studio in Chicago, watching the restored new print of The Godfather, when he was unexpectedly joined by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the famously inaccessible duo behind The Matrix, Speed Racer, and (people forget) Bound. Afterward, he got a opportunity to chat with them — not in a conventional interview setting, complete with a hovering publicist (the brothers don’t do that, remember?), but over a beer.

Ebert was impressed with the “zillionaires”: “Nice people. Friendly. No Hollywood attitude.” He writes that “[t]he blogosphere paints them as mysterious recluses, which might add to the legend but doesn’t match the reality.” But their being nice and friendly doesn’t make them any less mysterious and reclusive: I’d wager that Ebert only ran the piece because of their reputation for not giving interviews or talking to anyone in the press.

Anyway, it’s really interesting to “hear” them talk, though they mostly talk about the difficulties of keeping a moving 35 mm shot in focus and the brilliance of Coppola’s Godfather shot selection. It’s funny how keeping silent for a while will make such brief, mundane snippets into objects of arcane fascination. (Though since I think the Wachowskis are pretty formidable visual artists themselves, I find their perspective on that sort of thing interesting in its own right.)

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