Someone Shot Gambit to Mars
Sorry to get your hopes up, Gambit-haters — really, it’s not Gambit but Taylor Kitsch, the guy who played him in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, and they didn’t really kidnap him and stick him in a rocket bound for Mars, but they did cast him as the lead in the upcoming John Carter of Mars movie.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I don’t hate Kitsch; I think he’s excellent on Friday Night Lights (as is pretty much everybody on Friday Night Lights) but not so good that I’m positive that he’s got actual acting skills or if he’s just being given good material and being well directed. Conversely, very few people could come out of the Wolverine movie smelling like a rose, so I’m not going to hold that against him either.
Basically, I’m going to trust that John Carter director Andrew Stanton — the guy who did Wall*E — will make him work. Although he has to cut his goddamn hair. I don’t care that he’s a civil war veteran; he has to get have a real haircut. I don’t think this is too much to ask. (Via Coming Soon)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.