{"id":11052,"date":"2017-03-23T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-of-gaston-and-more\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T06:00:00","slug":"today-in-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-of-gaston-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-of-gaston-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Movie Culture: Imagining Michael Shannon as Cable, Deadpool Sings His Version of &#8220;Gaston&#8221; and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-quotgastonquot-more\/22347?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Christopher Campbell<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-quotgastonquot-more\/22347?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201703\/pulp-fiction-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Casting Rendering of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith Michael Shannon the frontrunner to play Cable in <em>Deadpool 2<\/em>, BossLogic shows us what that might look like (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/comicbook.com\/marvel\/2017\/03\/23\/michael-shannon-as-cable-image\/\">via ComicBook.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n\t\tWhipped up a Michael Shannon version of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cable?src=hash\">#cable<\/a> for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComicBook\">@ComicBook<\/a> I&#8217;m happy with the short-list bring on the announcement \ud83d\ude00 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robertliefeld\">@robertliefeld<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43olsYGDuI\">pic.twitter.com\/43olsYGDuI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 BossLogic (@Bosslogic) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bosslogic\/status\/844941817476857856\">March 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tDeadpool and friends do their own version of &#8220;Gaston&#8221; from <em>Beauty and the Beast <\/em>in this well-done musical spoof (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/fan-made-deadpool-musical-features-a-beauty-and-the-beast-gaston-parody\">via Geek Tyrant<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Cast Reunion of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSee how well everyone from <em>Love, Actually <\/em>has aged in this TV spot for the short sequel <em>Red Nose, Actually<\/em> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/03\/love-actually-sequel-first-trailer-short-film-red-nose-day-hugh-grant-1201795909\/\">via IndieWire<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Link of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tNow that <em>Rogue One <\/em>is on video, someone connected its end seamlessly to the beginning of the first <em>Star Wars<\/em> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/watch-seamless-transition-from-rogue-ones-ending-to-a-new-hopes-beginning\">via Geeko<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/geekologie.com\/2017\/03\/the-end-of-star-wars-rogue-one-edited-se.php\">logie<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Vintage Image of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAmanda Plummer, who turns 60 today, gets direction from Quentin Tarantino on the set of <em>Pulp Fiction <\/em>in 1993:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Filmmaker in Focus:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tToday is also Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s birthday (he would be 107 if still alive), so here&#8217;s a look at his later color films in a video by Philip Brubaker for Fandor Keyframe:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Science of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn honor of the new <em>Power Rangers <\/em>movie, Kyle Hill scientifically explains why Rita Repulsa&#8217;s staff might be more destructive than her monsters:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Comparison of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlso, Couch Tomato shows 24 reasons why the old <em>Mighty Morphin Power Rangers <\/em>movie is the same as <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Trivia of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOne more for <em>Power Rangers<\/em>, here&#8217;s some more trivia about the franchise from ScreenCrush:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis week is the 20th anniversary of the release of <em>Selena <\/em>starring Jennifer Lopez. Watch the original trailer for the classic biopic below. <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-quotgastonquot-more\/22347?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-quotgastonquot-more\/22347?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-imagining-michael-shannon-as-cable-deadpool-sings-his-version-quotgastonquot-more\/22347?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201703\/pulp-fiction-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Casting Rendering of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith Michael Shannon the frontrunner to play Cable in <em>Deadpool 2<\/em>, BossLogic shows us what that might look like (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/comicbook.com\/marvel\/2017\/03\/23\/michael-shannon-as-cable-image\/\">via ComicBook.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n\t\tWhipped up a Michael Shannon version of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cable?src=hash\">#cable<\/a> for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComicBook\">@ComicBook<\/a> I&#8217;m happy with the short-list bring on the announcement \ud83d\ude00 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robertliefeld\">@robertliefeld<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43olsYGDuI\">pic.twitter.com\/43olsYGDuI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 BossLogic (@Bosslogic) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bosslogic\/status\/844941817476857856\">March 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tDeadpool and friends do their own version of &#8220;Gaston&#8221; from <em>Beauty and the Beast <\/em>in this well-done musical spoof (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/fan-made-deadpool-musical-features-a-beauty-and-the-beast-gaston-parody\">via Geek Tyrant<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Cast Reunion of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSee how well everyone from <em>Love, Actually <\/em>has aged in this TV spot for the short sequel <em>Red Nose, Actually<\/em> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/03\/love-actually-sequel-first-trailer-short-film-red-nose-day-hugh-grant-1201795909\/\">via IndieWire<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Link of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tNow that <em>Rogue One <\/em>is on video, someone connected its end seamlessly to the beginning of the first <em>Star Wars<\/em> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/watch-seamless-transition-from-rogue-ones-ending-to-a-new-hopes-beginning\">via Geeko<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/geekologie.com\/2017\/03\/the-end-of-star-wars-rogue-one-edited-se.php\">logie<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Vintage Image of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAmanda Plummer, who turns 60 today, gets direction from Quentin Tarantino on the set of <em>Pulp Fiction <\/em>in 1993:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Filmmaker in Focus:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tToday is also Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s birthday (he would be 107 if still alive), so here&#8217;s a look at his later color films in a video by Philip Brubaker for Fandor Keyframe:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Science of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn honor of the new <em>Power Rangers <\/em>movie, Kyle Hill scientifically explains why Rita Repulsa&#8217;s staff might be more destructive than her monsters:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Comparison of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlso, Couch Tomato shows 24 reasons why the old <em>Mighty Morphin Power Rangers <\/em>movie is the same as <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Movie Trivia of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOne more for <em>Power Rangers<\/em>, here&#8217;s some more trivia about the franchise from ScreenCrush:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis week is the 20th anniversary of the release of <em>Selena <\/em>starring Jennifer Lopez. Watch the original trailer for the classic biopic below. <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}