Other Cool Movie Developments

...found while perusing IMDB for the previous post. Did you know that they're making a fifth Batman movie? It's a prequel, of sorts. Christian Bale, of American Psycho and Reign of Fire fame, plays the young Bruce Wayne. The villains? The Scarecrow, and Ken Watanabe as Ras Al-Ghul (how's that for color-blind casting!). The rest of the cast is legitimately star-studded: Liam Neeson, Michael Caine as Alfred, Katie Holmes as the love interest, Gary Oldman as then-Sergeant Jim Gordon, Tom Wilkinson, Morgan Freeman, Rutger Hauer. No more muscle-bound Tyrolean future pols here. Perhaps the franchise is going to be treated seriously again. We can hope, at least.

Meanwhile, check out the IMDB plot summary for the upcoming Andy Garcia / Dustin Hoffman flick The Lost City:

Set in Havana, Cuba, during the 50's, a club owner is caught in the turbulent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the club owner to flee to New York.

I like the parallelism there.