Marie Carlson

Still trying to get into the swing of blogging regularly. Life has been particularly wild lately — in good and bad ways — and I haven’t had much time to sit down and write a thoughtful blog post.

Instead, have an annotated collection of werewolf links.

DreadCentral.com: Paul Davis updates on S.C.U.M. and Gladiators vs. Werewolves.

Apparently Shaune Harrison has done some “wonderful work . . . on the werewolf designs and sculpts.” I withhold judgment until we can see more, but way, way too often the werewolf designs and implementations of those designs leave me wanting a lot better. (I frequently curse that with all our tech, no one has given me a werewolf look I love. Some have come close — I’m pretty fond of Dog Soldiers — but nothing that really blows me away.)

Bloody-Disgusting.com: Elvis’s granddaughter joins cast of Jack and Diane.

I am still intrigued by this movie. And from the pictures included in the article, Riley Keough is gorgeous, if a bit thin and young for my tastes. We’ll see how this goes. The way they keep switching up actors and delaying things, though, I worry it will never be made.

Cakewrecks has a hilarious post about wrecked werewolf cakes. If you know of any good werewolf cakes, I would love to see them. Cakewrecks did the post in honor of the release of Claire de Lune by Christine Johnson, which looks like it might be a really intriguing werewolf book, maybe without some of the sexist trends I keep running into in other books.

Fearnet.com: Teen Wolf series a go.

I’m not sure which would be worse: a ridiculous farce or if they tried to make it dramatic and serious. Or maybe both? Who knows.

Only tangentially related to werewolves, in that Jackson Pearce as a book, Sisters Red, out next month about werewolves that looks really awesome, but damn, the author is hilarious in this vlog music video about writer’s block.

I was supposed to be preparing to head to a conference this weekend, but life got in the way and I can’t attend. Still, maybe I’ll make writing progress instead. And blogging progress.

Hot Tub Time Machine’s Steve Pink to Direct Werewolves of Reseda.

“The film, written by Brian Frank, will center around a group of guys who gradually turn into werewolves that benefits their suburban lives.”

As much as I love werewolves, I’m not thrilled about the sound of this one. My guess it will be a bunch of white guys having adventures and there are too many movies like that already. Adding werewolves to the mix doesn’t make it interesting or new.

Sadly, I will still watch it, because I am feeling the lack of werewolves in my media. There’s only so many times I can marathon Cursed, The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, etc., before I need something new.

A Dark Moon Rising Gives Way to a Wolf Moon for Lionsgate.

On dvd June 22.

“The story of Wolf Moon goes like this: “Real love and fate collide in a small town girl’s life as Amy falls in love with a mysterious drifter who brings with him a family curse and the unimaginable horror that follows. Bender, who shares the curse with his son, brings hell to Amy’s small town. As Dan and Amy’s love is put to the test, Thibodeaux, an ex-cop from another city who has witnessed Bender’s lust for blood firsthand; Sam, the local sheriff and an ex-homicide detective; and John, a local farmer and Amy’s father, head for the ultimate showdown with Bender and the evil web of terror that he has drawn them all into.”

Wonder if the werewolf ends up dead in this one. Seems to be the trend even in werewolf movies with romances in them. Still, I’m kind of excited about this one.

The Wolfman Blu-ray and DVD specs.

Director’s cut! Though it only adds sixteen minutes. And it looks like the Blu-ray will get all the good special features, which means I might actually buy it on Blu-ray, which will be my first. (Not counting the one that came with the PS3 back when I bought it.)

(Though if this is true (Sony’s new Blue-Ray won’t work with your old Blu-Ray player), I am done. Damn it, Sony. This is one of the reasons why people turn to illegal copies, because you are making it impossible for them to watch it on what they own. Look, yay technology, see what we can do, want to make money, etc., I get it, but starting a format war with yourself is not a good plan.)

The Design, Tech, Execution, and Politics of The Wolfman Transformation Scenes.

“so rather than traditional close-ups of bones stretching and hair sprouting he might turn into something resembling an almost fetal orc-like creature.”

A) I love the traditional bones stretching. Like, a lot. Bones moving beneath the skin is so very creepy. B) I wonder if that orc-like creature is what they used during the illness hallucination/dream sequence. If so, it looked far more like Gollum than an orc.

The Fangs, Fur, and Fey is holding a discussion/recommendation list of books which deal with stories that focus on characters of color, queer characters, non-European mythology, etc.

I recently read Karen Healey’s Guardian of the Dead, which I highly recommend, set in New Zealand and featuring Māori mythology, though with a straight white point of view character. The main character’s best friend is asexual, too.

Will Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson Make It to Big Screen?

No real news yet, but I didn’t know it had been optioned at all, so that’s interesting. (I have some issues with how rape has been handled in the series, and also dominant males, but on the whole, I really enjoy both it and the Alpha and Omega companion series.)

Patricia Briggs on How She Writes and Who She’s Reading Now.

I am really envious of her home in Washington. I want space for coyotes to roam. (Also, I love Washington.)