News Roundup

So here's some small tidbits (he almost said titbits, he he) of news from all over.

JACK WHITE AND ALICIA KEYS TO DUET ON BOND THEME

And thank fuck the song isn't called Quantum Of Solace. Not even such credible artists as White and Keys could make that one play. What does it even rhyme with. Call us? Marcellus Wallace? Hippopotamus? It will be called Another Way To Die, which sounds like it would be a better title for a Bond Movie than Quantum of Nonsense.



UNIVERSAL ON BOARD FOR INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

Tarantino's long awaited (the phrase loses meaning when it comes to this movie) World War II epic is to be co-financed by the Weinsteins and Universal. Tarantino had shopped it around to the studios and the Weinsteins came on board immediately. It seems the script readers in Universal are a little slower since they only got behind the project yesterday. Hopefully this means the script is as good as we hope and the budget will be in place to secure the cast it deserves, which if rumours are to be believed, includes DiCaprio and Pitt. Tarantino hopes to unveil it at Cannes 2009. Sounds a bit rushed to us. We'll believe it when we see it (probably as a 3-part 6 hour, self-indulgent epic in 2014).



SCOTT'S NOTTINGHAM PROJECT PUSHED BACK

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood project which aimed to re-imagine the legend and have Russell Crowe portray The Sheriff of Nottingham as a more sympathetic character has been pushed back. Among the reasons cited was the fact that the trees in England wouldn't be green enough when they wanted to shoot (no, really). Hopefully this will bring forward his planned adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Blood Meridian .



MARVIN THE MARTIAN MOVIE GREENLIT

Wahey! Marvin The Martian kicks ass. That is all.