Yet another pointless remake, part 981

Roland Emmerich, a talentless hack whose best screen moment involved taking the "There can be only one" quote from Highlander and having Jaye Davidson append "Ra" to the end of it*, has been given the job of unnecessarily remaking Fantastic Voyage.

Bold prediction: It will suck donkey balls.

Bolder prediction: Pictures of executives sucking donkey balls is how Emmerich gets his jobs in the first place.

*Which is not to imply this is a good moment. Just the best that Emmerich is capable of.

Thursday links

I almost called this "Friday links." Wishful thinking.

1. ZOMG! Legion of Super-Heroes Happy Meal toys! Although WTF is with the assumption that the female characters don't rate?

2. Winners of Woot's Movie Poster Mashup Contest, featuring Transformers of the Caribbean and a great Spidey 3/Homer mashup (ganked from the awesome muse0fire)!

3. Inorganic dust can take on lifelike characteristics in space, including developing the helix structure. Very nifty article.

4. Slashfilm has scored a list of six potential film titles for the next Indiana Jones movie, all registered by Lucasfilm with the MPAA. I'm still betting on Indiana Jones and the Deathly Hollows, myself.

5. There's an official website for the Watchmen movie. Not much there yet, but at least they've got the Comedian's pin.

6. Counting Crows are working on a new album!

6.5 In related news, the whiny "Yeeeeeeeaaaaah" at the end of "Rain King" is the suckiest moment in an otherwise good song. Ever.

7. Life on Mars news (ganked from lizlet): Colm Meaney will be in the American remake (which means it might suck less than expected), and there's a spin-off of the original in the works!

7.5 Also, from this week's print edition of TV Guide: Season 2 of the original LoM will finally air in early 2008. Which is way too fucking long, and might be the first time I'm finally driven to teh intarwebs for a TV show.

8. This is why glass-top desks might be a bad idea.

9. Appleworks (née Clarisworks), dead at 23.

10. Finally, News.com has a short little history of the CFC lightbulb a technology that's cut our energy bill quite nicely, thank you very much.