Wednesday Rushes – Veronica Mars, Wright-Pegg-N-Frost, Who Vs. Sherlock, Community And More

Kristen Bell promises that “the few people involved with [Veronica Mars] that have it in our hearts” are still trying to get a movie spin-off made. Bless them. [Huffington Post]

Scott Spiegel has spared a few words on his Hostel film, the third in the series. [STYD]

And here’s a clip from the film (in the wrong aspect ratio) courtesy of Dread Central.

Mel Gibson is to attend an LA screening of his three Mad Max films and take part in an onstage Q&A. Could be awkward. I bet they don’t throw it open to the floor. [Hero Complex]

A new promo video for A Game of Thrones goes behind the scenes in Belfast.

Community fans are planning a Christmas-song flashmob for tomorrow, over at NBC Headquarters. You know the address – it’s where Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin work.

Between now and March, Tom Hiddleston is filming his role in three BBC films adapting Shakespeare’s Henry IV parts one and two and Henry V. Hardcore schedule. [Just Jared]

Here’s the first American trailer for Goon, the ice hockey comedy from director Michael Dowse and screenwriters Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg. [Apple]

Oh, and let’s have the UK “Red Band” version while we’re here…

Michael Fassbender is “not at liberty to say” whether or not he’ll star in Darren Aronofksy’s Noah, but he will admit to his ongoing project of writing a script with John MacLean, a sometime member of The Beta Band. [Playlist]

Arthur Darvill is now confirmed for March’s official Doctor Who convention in Cardiff, alongside Matt Smith and Steven Moffat. Got something better to do, Ms. Gillan? [PR]

Bradley Cooper, Kristen Bell and Kristin Chenoweth will all be appearing in Dax Shepherd’s crimey road-movie Outrun, as will Shepherd himself, in the role of… Charlie Bronson. But not that Charlie Bronson. Or that one either. A third one. [PR]

Gwar are a moderately bemusing heavy metal act in novelty masks and, as it happens, moonlighting film reviewers. In this video they get stuck into War Horse. They have nothing of any real insight to say but it’s novel and therefore spreading virally and very rapidly. [Next Movie]

Leiji Matsumoto has announced development of a Cosmo Super Dreadnought Mahoroba feature film, due in 2013. [ANN]

Harrison Ford has signed on for a turn in Ender’s Game alongside several younger players: Abigail Breslin, Aramis Knight, Moises Arias, Jimmy Pinchak, Suraj Parthasarathy, Conor Carroll and Kylin Rhambo. Ford will essay Colonel Hyram Graff, the man who trains all of the little ones so that they might go to war against insectoid aliens and, very probably, die. [Variety]

Helen Mirren is to play the inner voice of a character on Glee, though which one exactly is being kept secret for now. Apparently the role was written specifically for her. Bonus weird: the episode in question is being directed by Eric Stoltz. [TV Line]

It’s Channukah, so Conan O’Brien unveiled his Human Centipede version of a Menorah. New tradition, surely?

Ryan Gosling has taken a meeting with Gaspar Noe – but is it for the director’s upcoming adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ The Golden Suicides? Something else? Or just because he could? [Brett Easton Ellis]

The next TV show from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin and Stacy, is Stella, a family comedy that will make its debut on January 6th om Sky. The broadcaster has now unveiled a series of stills, revealing the cast of characters. [Sky]

There’s another name on the impressive Burt Wonderstone cast list: Jay Mohr as magician Rick The Implausible. [The Wrap]

The Darkest Hour, then. A kind of teens vs. invisible aliens adventure film set in Russia. I have to say I’m not feeling too confident about this one, myself. Especially not after the trailers, posters and promotional videos like this one. [STYD]

Song Hye-kyo is to join Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen in John Woo’s wartime romantic melodrama Love and Let Love. [Korea Herald/The Playlist]

If Cameron Crowe is still keen to make a Say Anything spin-off – “something more with [Lloyd Dobler, played by John Cusack] or one of the side characters”. I’m keen too, Cameron. I want to see this film. [Vulture]

Zentropa are to produce a TV series based on the crime novels of Jussi Adler-Olsen. Mark my words: these will end up screening on BBC4. Probably on a Saturday. At 9pm. [Screen Daily]

Here’s a TV spot for Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, and it’s at least as dynamic as the last trailer.

Terra Nova may or may not be coming back for a second series. It really does look to be in the balance. A decent number of people watch it, so that’s good, but it’s just so expensive. [Variety]

Kelly Brook and Verne Troyer have roles in the Keith Lemon movie. Here’s a rather disquieting on-set snap. [Daily Mail]

Speaking with The Scotsman, Steven Moffat rubbed a little wax on the connections between Sherlock and Doctor Who:

The thing that unites both those shows is that they absolutely fetishise intelligence. In the Clarkson-isation of television I think it’s rather good that we have two very popular drama series that expect the audience to be intelligent, and are right in that expectation. The only superpower those two heroes have is the fact that they’re smarter than anybody else in the room. It says you don’t have to be the fastest, the best-looking, the sexiest, you can just be smart. You don’t often get the message, especially in American movies, that smart is good, that smart doesn’t have to be geeky and silly, it can actually be amazing and powerful. And particularly in the case of the Doctor, he’s such a moral man, he’s a good, clever man, that’s all he is. I think that’s about as positive a message as you could possibly give.

Andrzej Bartkowiak was director of photography on good, well-loved films like The Verdict and Prizzi’s Honor before graduating, as it were, to laughing-stock nonsense as a director – Doom, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, Exit Wounds. Next up, he’s going to bring us Beneath the Deep, a thriller about tourists in the Caribbean fighting for survival against “unexpected visitors” under the waves. Do I smell aliens? [Variety]

In this interview with Movieweb, Simon Pegg echoes Nick Frost’s comments that the third of their Three Flavours will likely go before cameras next year. He makes it sound like they’ve got a very developed script:

One screenplay that Edgar Wright has written apparently draws on a new genre for him:

I’ve written a script which is kind of like a musical. Slightly a departure for me in some ways.

Well, unless you count the musical-y bits in Scott Pilgrim. My hunch is that this is a newer, unannounced project, but it might be Baby Driver, originally described as an action film but which shares its name with a Paul Simon tune.[The Moveable Feast via The Playlist]