Refresh yourself with spoilers! A script review of Nolan’s Inception is shocking and possibly accurate. There’s thrilling Surrogates footage, and a revealing FlashForward clip. Smallville gets zanier. Plus: Batman 3, Jennifer’s Body, Supernatural, Fringe, Warehouse and Heroes spoilers.
Inception:
Someone who claims to have read the whole screenplay for Christopher Nolan’s “architecture of the mind” thriller posted a review online — and several salt mines worth of grains of salt are probably indicated. The synopsis is vastly different from the other dribs and drabs we’ve learned so far, and sounds a bit outlandish to boot. At the same time, you just never know — and I remember dismissing a spot-on accurate summary of The Dark Knight as a fake months before the movie came out.
In any case, the lucky (or lying) reviewer says that far from being about stepping into people’s dreams for espionage purposes, as we’ve reported previously, Inception is actually about using the mind to travel to any point in space. A man named Jacob Hastley has recently become paraplegic, and he considers killing himself — but instead he discovers a connection between the human mind and space. Since both space and the mind’s capacity are infinite (they are?), you can create a doorway from your mind into any point in space.
So Jacob discovers a “thought algorithm” that lets him travel to any point in the universe, without actually traveling. He visits other solar systems, and even other galaxies, and it’s groovy. Then he discovers that other people already know how to do this mind-traveling thing, and they’re 150 percent smarter than average humans because they use more of their brain capacity. These other travelers are aware of Jacob’s travels, and Jacob has to find the truth behind the origins of the universe (hence “Inception”) before the other travelers catch up to him.
The supporting cast includes Lisa, a genius and Jacob’s ex-wife who dumped him after he was injured, but who shows up again right after his first trip. Plus Kansas, a dog whisperer who connects in an unearthly way with her animals, Tark, a 37-year-old man who seems to have a wisdom beyond his years, and Isabell, a blind woman who will stop at nothing to see again. So… what do you think? Do we call in TrekMovie’s Senator Vreenak?
Update: Apparently it was an April Fool’s prank. Oh well. [Script Shadow, thanks Ryan!]
Batman 3:
Have we already mentioned a dozen times before that Aaron Eckhart says Harvey Dent died at the end of The Dark Knight? Here’s one more for luck. [MTV]
Surrogates:
Just how badly do you want to see some kick-ass robot-fighting new footage from Surrogates? Badly enough to sit through a music video by the band Breaking Benjamin? If so, then here ya go. The song is pretty dreadful, but the scenes from the movie make it look pretty darn amazing. [Thanks Mike!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz_P52qZe6s
Jennifer’s Body:
Director Karen Kusama explains what appealed to her about this movie’s script:
I really, really loved the fact that it had this subverted fairytale kind of structure where in the end it’s Needy who has to save Chip, save herself and deal with Jennifer. That she really has to become an adult over the course of the movie and that was powerful to me. I know the movie plays like a crazy, fun genre film, but I hope that there’s something a little bit emotionally richer.
A tragedy befalls the town, and the townsfolk find a song to unify them in their grief. And there’s a great moment where we see Jennifer cupping blood out of a torn-open torso. [ShockTillYouDrop]
Supernatural:
Tired of Sam and Dean ripping each other to pieces? Then there’s good news. Eric Kripke says season five is about “building Sam and Dean back up in a way that makes them older, sadder, wiser, and, ultimately, stronger. It’s funny, we’ve been feeling in many ways that this is the most optimistic season of Supernatural we’ve ever done. Because even though the exterior circumstances are a massive cluster f–k, internally, the boys aren’t tearing each other apart every episode. It’s more like, ‘Hey, maybe we’ll lose, but, dammit, let’s go down swinging.'” [EW]
Fringe:
The question with Charlie isn’t so much whether he’s going, but when. (And I think this means in which episode he’ll leave, and it’s not some kind of hint that Charlie will be time-traveling.) [EW]
Another combined Bones/Fringe promo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otBHOPVe6zM
FlashForward:
A new clip from the pilot, in which people start to realize those blackouts weren’t just blackouts. Plus a few promos I don’t think we’ve shown you before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGi38S7eCeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS4Jx2R4Tws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QAehqkIBOE
House:
House has “steamy goings-on” with she-who-shall-not-be-named in the season premiere, but Huddy is far from over — House and Cuddy have an intense attraction, but it’s as much intellectual and spiritual as sexual. Also, when House, Wilson and Cuddy go on a business trip in episode seven, Lucas tags along. [EW]
Warehouse 13:
A sneak peek from next Tuesday’s episode, where Myka has to save her dad (Michael Hogan!) from a sinister artifact.
Heroes:
Ready to pick at that scab again? Here are a bevy of photos from the two-part season premiere, “Orientation” and “Jump, Push, Fall.” (I guess “orientation” refers to Claire going to college as well as, possibly, her much-discussed lesbian-until-graduation-ness. Must resist the temptation to make a joke about matriculation.) [Herosite]
Smallville:
Tom Welling explains that going into season nine, Clark has lost faith in his old view of the human race:
Well, in the past Clark has always been the reluctant hero. Everyone is telling him what he has to do and he doesn’t want to do it. With the events of Jimmy’s death [in May’s season finale], along with the eight seasons building up, he realizes that his view on humanity has been wrong. And he goes to Jor-El and says, ‘I messed up, what do I do now?’ Jor-El takes him in, and Clark starts his training. His training ultimately is what will prepare him to be who we all know he’s going to be in the future. So it’s him spending time at the Fortress of Solitude downloading all this information. At the same time, information is given to him that the fate of the world depends on Lois Lane’s survival. So Clark has to struggle between his destiny and his humanity. Especially in the first few episodes it gets in the way of the training, because he just can’t help but deal with humans and help people, when all Jor-El wants him to do is shut everyone off, forget about them, rise above them and be the hero he needs to be.
And Clark wears the “S” symbol on his chest, the sign of the House of El, as a means of establishing a “call sign” for himself. He’s no longer the red-blue blur, just the Blur. In episode two, through a contrivedcomplicated set of circumstances caused by “interesting lighting”, Lois gets a good look at the symbol on Clark’s chest, but doesn’t see his face. Clark has an opportunity to step forward and show her his face, but chooses not to. And here’s a new pic. [TV Guide Magazine via OSCK]
Chuck:
Angie Harmon wants Captain Awesome dead because he’s a superspy now. Or something. [EW]
Eastwick:
I don’t think we’ve featured this sneak peek and promo from the “Desperate Housewitches” show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0b3fSa2mAg
And it’s not much of a spoiler to say this show is “cheesy and dull” according to E! Online. The devil is a douche instead of debonair. Sara Rue is wasted in the background, at least in the pilot. [E! Online]
Additional reporting by Alexis Brown.
