Fannish Items of Interest

[calliopes_pen]

A prequel for Doctor Who’s The Impossible Astronaut has been released.

15 sci-fi actors we’d watch in anything. I agree with almost everyone on this list, save Neal McDonough, and the ones that I’ve never heard of, like Harold Perrineau, Enver Gjokaj, and Ian McShane.

Warren Beatty retains the rights to Dick Tracy.

The Gallifrey Road t-shirt.

Bryan Singer reflects on Superman Returns.

Neil Gaiman discusses the upcoming Good Omens mini-series.

Diana Wynne Jones passed away yesterday at the age of 76, following a year-long struggle with cancer. May she rest in peace.

Comments

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

That was a good, if not complete list of actors. I'm with you on the "did not recognize" list - except for Ian McShane! It only lasted about 10 episodes, but you've got to check out Kings. And while the language is tough at first, Deadwood is so worth your time :-)

I agree with some of the commenters that David Hewlitt and James Marsters needed to be on the list. I'm not a huge Marster's fan myself, but there's a huge chunk of fandom that follows them. Once SPN ends, Jared and Jensen will have followings like that to every show they go to.

[calliopes_pen]

Deadwood was never one that I cared to watch, since I hate westerns. With Kings, I just wasn't interested in the premise. Plus, the one time Dad attempted to download Deadwood for himself from a torrent, we ended up with a cease and desist e-mail from Comcast within 10 minutes. They had received some sort of notification from HBO within 5 minutes.

I'm slightly surprised David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston weren't listed, too, since so many people follow them everywhere from project to project.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with Neal McDonough? Granted, he's not enough for me to watch something like, say, the recent Street Fighter movie, but he's still my dream actor to play Bullseye. I'm just sad that they didn't include Ravenous in his credits.

Also, you don't know Harold Perrineau? Dude's in, like, everything! Also, they don't include Oz in his credits?? Ravenous, I understand, but come on!

[calliopes_pen]

He's always seemed incredibly creepy to me. Granted, my first exposure to him was Desperate Housewives during an attempt to watch that, so that may have simply ruined him for me. Next time I spotted him was when I was watching a portion of Tin Man, and I was just waiting for him to try to kill everyone.

I just checked IMDB, and the only thing I've seen Harold Perrineau in wasn't live action, so it's understandable I don't know him. He did some voicework in an episode of Spider-Man: TAS. The shows he's in aren't shows I would watch, given that they seem to be cop shows, The Matrix, Oz, and Lost.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh, can't argue with that! The creepiness is why I like him! Really, I don't get the whole "nobility" thing that article was talking about at all. He's a steely, creepy, intense, Aryan motherfucker.

Sometimes I forget that Perrineau was also in drag as an ecstasy-dispensing Mercutio in R+J.

[veracity]

It might have to do with Neal's unwilling to bend his morality to gain a part. He's refused roles - or walked out in the middle of filming - before because it involved being intimate with another woman, like on screen sex scenes, and it tends to bleed into whatever he's doing. Even when he was playing the villain in Walking Tall, you saw how he warped the creepiness into an almost benevolence in providing things for a dying town.

[mackinzie.livejournal.com]

Enver Gjokaj is on Joss Whedon's show Dollhouse. I would highly recommend the show. The first season runs a little slow but season two is amazing.

[calliopes_pen]

I tried watching it when it first started, and just didn't care for the whole thing with characters not actually having their own personalities. I think I made it to the fourth or fifth episode or so, before giving up.

I'll skip to season 2 at some point someday, and see if I like it at all there.