Richard Armitage tangentially related

Fandom:

• Guylty’s annual Richard Armitage birthday auctions are open (until the 20th). Check them out here, to raise money to combat homelessness in the UK.
• I will do the same annual fundraiser I do every year on Armitage’s birthday itself. It will be posted around 12 a.m. London time on August 22nd and will run for 24 hours. Beneficiary will be LOROS (Leicestershire and Rutland hospice).
• There’s a new film about how being a Bruce Springsteen fan changed one writer’s life.

Current projects:

• (The Lodge): You can see it in Columbus, Ohio and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in Sydney and Severin and Fiala make a best horror directors list. A piece on how parents were treated in the films of this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival. The film was screened in Australia this week and there are reviews here and here and here and here.
• (The Stranger): David Buckley will score it. Armitage tweets about ADR. As does the director. As does Harlan Coben. Armitage also praises the art department. There’s this new silly photo, which is apparently real. A picture from the set, I guess.
• (Wolverine: The Lost Trail): There’s going to be another Marvel podcast (this one not including Wolverine, apparently). Armitage tweeted implying he’s too old to play the character. But ScreenHub is determined.
• (Voices of History): Armitage is studying Socrates (but I don’t know what dramatic works he’s referring to; Socrates’ own thought survives primarily in the work of Plato and Plato is not known to have written any works for theater).

Past projects:

• (Ocean’s 8): A documentary on the actual Met Gala is now available for streaming in the U.S. 
• (North & South): A clickbait article about details viewers missed. Honestly, after 15 years I doubt any of us have missed any of this.
• (A Nearly Normal Family): Armitage praises the book.

Merch:

• A profile of the Funko Pop phenomenon.

Collateral attractions:

• Awkwafina (Ocean’s 8) is going to play another superhero.
• Apparently Cate Blanchett (The Hobbit; Ocean’s 8) regularly threatens to quit acting, but she says quite a number of interesting things in this interview relating to the occasion of her new film, Where’d You, Bernadette? (which I saw last night and enjoyed).
• Yaël Farber (The Crucible) is quoted in an article about how critical Edinburgh fringe festival reviews should be.
• David Hewson (Macbeth; Romeo & Juliet) says Venice saved his career (I haven’t listened to this).
• Michael Gandolfini (Ocean’s 8) hadn’t seen his father’s most well-known performance until recently.
• Sandra Bullock’s (Ocean’s 8) Japanese dubber.
• Harlan Coben’s (The Stranger) earlier series No Second Chance is now available to stream in the UK.
• Jaeden Lieberher (The Lodge) has changed his name to Jaeden Martell and is on a list of hot child actors in Hollywood.

Things Richard Armitage has said:

• Armitage’s tweet quoted in an article about BAFTA’s new casting award.

Things we’ve talked about:

• Learning about sex by reading romance novels.
• Americanisms Brits can’t stand. To be honest, several of these (11, 17, 18 and 25) are on my list of pet peeves, too. And #38 is something that’s come up a few times in the fandom.
• As I mentioned last week, tumblr’s been sold — to Automattic, the concern that owns wordpress. (Let’s hope that automatic posting gets a little prettier now).
• Were you ever a kid who got lost in the enyclopedia?
• Jane Austen’s unfinished novel is coming to the BBC.

~ by Servetus on August 18, 2019.