— The watertight security around Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” has sprung a leak in the shape of Michael Caine, who tells Empire about his character. “I play a professor who’s teaching a guy science. It’s Leonardo DiCaprio. He’s going off to do a science project and he speaks to me before he goes.” Admittedly, not a huge bit of news, but it seems that even Caine doesn’t know much more than we do. “They wouldn’t let me read the script. I only got my page. They’re all very secretive!”
— Marvel head honcho Joe Quesada has been talking up the clumsily-titled “The First Avenger: Captain America,” set to be directed by Joe Johnston (“The Wolf Man”) He told a panel at the Big Apple Comic-Con that “I’ve seen a couple of outlines and an initial screenplay, and it’s going to rock everyone’s socks off. It’s very unexpected, the kind of movie it is.” What kind is that, then? Torture porn? Romantic-comedy? Torture-porn-romantic-comedy?
— Sociopathic 3D evangelists MarketSaw printed a rumor yesterday that a new trilogy of “Star Wars” movies were being planned in 3D, to be directed by Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, and, in news slightly less surprising than the sun rising this morning, it’s been denied by a Lucasfilm representative. Kudos to Ain’t It Cool for doing what MarketSaw should have done in the first place. You know, proper journalism.
— Stephen Norrington, a director so terrible he caused Sean Connery to retire after “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” has delivered a script for his reboot of “The Crow” franchise. Apparently, the film will have an “almost documentary style,” which probably means it’ll rip off the Bourne movies. Unless it’s riffing on “An Inconvenient Truth,” and has a guy in goth make-up giving a PowerPoint presentation for two hours.
