one of these things is not like the other

[ontology]

i. So, Dad came upstairs a few minutes ago to tell me that, "oh, there's going to be a Beowulf movie...with Angeline Jolie." We sort of stared at each other in an "o-kay" sort of way, and he said something about Robert Zemeckis directing, "so it might be good, because he's really brilliant," (not that I would know; I am not so well-versed in directors and I had to ask, and apparently he directed Forest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and some other stuff, which all seems about as far from Beowulf as, well...Angelina Jolie) and I'm still thinking Angeline Jolie? In Beowulf? Angeline Jolie?, because, seriously, who is there for Angelina Jolie to play? And then I thought, oh, oh, sweet Arda, is this the same Beowulf movie that Neil Gaiman did the script for? (Because there could be two totally different Beowulf films coming out in one year. Really!) So, after Dad wanders back downstairs, I had to look it up to see for myself, or I'd sit up all night trying to reconcile the two vastly different worlds of Angelina Jolie and Beowulf. 

I looked it up, and it is. (Right. Like I said, two Beowulf films in one year?) Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, and Angeline Jolie. As Grendel's mother. Angeline Jolie is going to play an underwater hag. I am thunderstruck, I tell you. Also, the movie is reportedly going to be done with motion-capture technology: i.e., it's all going to be animated. ("Like The Polar Express," the article said, and all I'm saying is that the animation had better be better than The Polar Express, which may have been a technical wonder, but the animation was dead boring.) 

My conclusion? This film is either going to be completely brilliant or fantastically awful.

ii. I am updating Ink & Chocolate, my Vox, every single day now. Or every weekday, anyway. It is for Scholastic Purposes. It is also rather rambly and probably sort of dull, but pop in to read once in a while, won't you? There are Bookish Thoughts. And right now there is costume-squee.

Comments

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

Angelina Jolie? I am officially weirded out. Though, Angelina Jolie as an underwater hag will be quite interesting.

Whatever. I am willing to accept it and be all optimistic, because NEIL GAIMAN. ♥ ♥ ♥ Nothing that man writes can be bad. *creepy fangirl* And I like technical wonders, so!

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

YESSS, NEIL GAIMAN. ♥ Neil Gaiman is so many kinds of awesome that I can't even count them all. I know his script will be brilliant, and I really hope the rest of it is equally awesome, because. NEIL. YAY. (Who is involved in, what, three movies right now? Yikes. But also yay.)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

NEIL GAIMAN WILL NOT FAIL US! ♥ *another creepy fangirl*

Also, this for Banui 'cause I think the comment will probably show up in her inbox -- I don't have a Vox account, so I will never be able to comment over there; don't be afraid if I start drop random comments re. Ink & Chocolate into comments here every once in a while. ;)

[charismitaine.livejournal.com]

Actually I think there is another Beowulf film coming out next year, and there was one called something like 'Beowulf and Grendel' that came out this year (didn't see it or hear much about it, but I know it exists).

I am very excited about the Gaiman Beowulf, though--if you search his blog I think there are a couple of pictures from the production.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

My, what's with the sudden outpouring of Beowulf love? Not that it's undeserved, it's just rather sudden. And I heard about the Beowulf & Grendel film, if somewhat vaguely--wasn't it released in Finland or someplace like that?

I haven't seen any Beowulf production photos, but I haven't been reading Neil's blog all that long, either. The Coraline photos look completely amazing, though. I cannot wait to see how that turns out.

[charismitaine.livejournal.com]

Someplace like that--it was definitely never in theatres here, but then we didn't have Mirrormask or Howl's Moving Castle for more than a week.

The Beowulf photos were a while ago--last summer, maybe? There weren't very many, but I think there was at least an artist's rendering of what Grendel's mother will look like.

I am so excited about Coraline, too--and nervous. If there's a narrator of any kind and it's not Neil Gaiman, my headspace will be all kinds of disturbed.

[trolliepop.livejournal.com]

Hold up. Why in the world are they doing to Beowulfs in one year? Have you seen the Gerard Butler one? We got it in from NetFlix, but it was while I was doing Wizard of Oz, so I never got to see it. Mom did, and said it wasn't that good and that they had thrown a love story into it.

Hmm...

Why two in one year, though?