Movies
Watch Lars von Trier’s Violent Short ‘Occupation’
It’s been a beautifully slow news day, which is all fine and dandy — other than it makes me feel like we don’t have anything fun for you guys to read about during your final hours of a long work weel. We’ll fix that right now…
My buddy Aaron just sent me over a short film I completely forgot about that’s perfect for Bloody Disgusting, and makes a bold statement about disrupting other patrons in a theater (I’m looking at you!)
The above short film was helmed by none other than Lars von Trier, the self-proclaimed greatest director in the world who’s most recent works include the masterpieces Antichrist and Melancholia. The 3-minute long short, entitled “Occupations,” was directed in 2007 as part of Chacun Son Cinéma (To Each His Own Cinema) collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.
It’s not a good idea to interrupt a man who is watching a movie in cinema. Especially if that person is Lars von Trier….
Movies
Todd McFarlane Reveals He’s Sitting on Unreleased Animated ‘Spawn’ Movie Starring Keith David
While updates on the Spawn movie from Blumhouse have stalled, Todd McFarlane surprised at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend with the reveal that he’s been sitting on an animated film.
Moreover, the comic creator revealed to Comic Book that his unreleased animated Spawn film is mostly completed, and stars Keith David and Mark Hamill.
McFarlane explained to the outlet that he’s uninterested in expanding upon the 1997 live-action film in series form. That’s when he revealed his animated feature: “I don’t know if I’ve ever said, we developed, we were in the process of developing the return of this Spawn animation a while back. And then we, I got in a fight at the very end with the production and the lawyer, so I just bought it all back.”
The film is mostly ready to go, too.
“So I actually have a 90-minute animated show that’s all been drawn, minus the cells. All the voices have been done. Everything, like, we’re ready. All we need is a little bit of Foley, which is sound effects and stuff, and then hand it to a studio to actually draw, right? We’re like, it’s just been sitting in a box waiting to go. I have just been sitting on that going, no, I think I need to get like the movie out, and then boom, once the movie comes out, if there’s any success, then come out with that, but it’s sitting there. So anybody that wants to do animation, the first thing I’m going to do is say, hey, I’ve got this ready to tee up,” McFarlane said.
McFarlane also confirms that Keith David voices Spawn, while Hamill takes on a detective named Twitch.
It’s been a long, hard road out of development hell with his brand new Spawn feature, which Todd McFarlane had originally planned to direct. Jamie Foxx had been attached to play the title character at one point, but we have no idea if that’s still the plan as it’s been a couple of years since the last update.
Perhaps this mostly completed animated Spawn feature will see release first?