on we go

[aria]

Today my hair is doing hilarious flippy things! Hair, you are not Chloe Sullivan.

Apparently there really is going to be a remake of the Highlander movie? Google tells me that they have the writers from Iron Man signed on and everything, although most of the news links are from 2009, so who knows. Look, it is absurd to reboot your franchise when the whole premise is "there can be only one", or at least it is if you want another final showdown with the Kurgan. I think they should just make a movie about Methos, but I understand that Really Old Guy Who Is Seriously Awesome But We're Not Quite Sure Where He's From is a less catchy film title.

Anyway, I'm more occupied with staring in fascination at the much more up-to-date reports that Zack Snyder will direct the next Superman. And Chris Nolan will produce! Seriously, every time I remember these facts, I sit very still in a state of dazed paralysis, trying to wrap my mind around the sheer cracked insanity that could result.

In other news, I thought I would try my 50,000 November word count by just adding up all the various things I'm writing, but then ... I started writing an actual goddamn non-fanfic novel. I understand that one should be writing roughly 1667 a day in order to hit the minimum complete word count by the thirtieth, which means that tonight I should be at 15000. Alas, I only started three days ago, and am at 7495 words. That means I am 15% done! And ... halfway to the current word count I should have. Whatever! I have great tabs open; I keep staring happily at the googlemaps street view of Scottish towns, I have two google books of Sir Walter Scott laying around, and I am drowning in ballads. GOOD TIMES.

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[nextian]

WHAT

YES

FANTASTIC

I am so delighted! IS IT A CARTER HALL REBOOT? Am I going to be drowning in delight again in the future? OMG, Aria. I have been waiting SO LONG for you to write this story again as a grown up. &heartseyes;

[aria]

HOLY CRAP EMMA CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS A LOT

BECAUSE YEAH IT TOTALLY IS

So far Maggie is vaguely miserable and reads lots of books, and Tom has been there for about three seconds and, whatever, unimportant, and I think there may be SUBPLOTS and oh my god I cannot stop wandering happily around virtual Selkirk on googlemaps, I think it is some kind of DISEASE.

[nextian]

I CAN HAS CALL YOU? I have to bring a load of laundry back to the apartment but then it's to the supermarket and I think my phone's charged.

[aria]

Um sadly it is nearly dinner! If you like I can call you afters, though? My ... 7ish?

[nextian]

That works for me! Gimme a ring. :)

[juniperphoenix]

I think they should just make a movie about Methos, but I understand that Really Old Guy Who Is Seriously Awesome But We're Not Quite Sure Where He's From is a less catchy film title.

Hee! I read a fic once in which Methos claimed his name meant something like "Scrawny Big-Nosed Boy We Found Under a Rock on the First Night of the New Moon." A bit catchier, perhaps, but still not a movie title.

[aria]

I totally remember that fic! Or, I remember that line, at least; I have no idea what fic it's from. It made me laugh, though. :)

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

Make a movie about Methos: that is exactly what they should do, before Peter Wingfield gets too old to look the part.

I am curious just why they think it's a good idea to remake Highlander, though.....

[aria]

Well, for some reason it is a cult classic? And remakes are all the rage! I don't know either, though; the thing that makes it charming is now freaking ridiculous it is, and if they tried to do it srs biznes I can't even imagine how weird it might turn out.

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

I have not actually even got up the courage yet to see the original, so I cannot speak to its charm, but I have a lot of trouble thinking about what apparently happens in that movie as anything but ridiculous. So a ~serious~ remake would just be -- I don't even know. But I kind of really want it to exist, just to see what they would choose to do with it. And so I can stare at it in fascination.

[aria]

Oh, I'm actually psyched about the remake! It's just, the mind boggles.

I don't ... actually recommend the movie? Except that it actually is so damn cute and hilarious; I advise seeing it in company/with alcohol/some combination of the two.

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

I was totally going to see the movie this summer, with alcohol and sentientcitizen's company, but we ended up watching various Buffy episodes instead. AWESOME TIMES, but it means I'm still sadly lacking in having seen that movie! Hmmm. *plots*

[skipthedemon]

I heard a theory recently that the reason there are so many remakes these days is that we are so info and media flooded and there are so many choices in consumption, that the only nearly sure fire way to catch a large audience's attention is to use a name they already know.

There may be something to that.

[aria]

...That is, in fact, depressingly likely. Yikes.

[skipthedemon]

The blockbuster hits of the year, while original stories, were done by writer/directors that are already household names. Nolan and Cameron. Nolan is widely known because of his Batman reboot.

I loved Inception and have been a Nolan fan since Memento, and hated Avatar, but. Yeesh, indeed.

[luzula]

If your writing involves folk ballads, I am totally in favor of it! \ballads/