It'll feature three main characters: a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician and a statistician.

Massive success is a dangerous thing. From Lucas to Shyamalan to the Wachowskis, most filmmakers need people looking over their shoulder during script development, casting, rewrites, etc.. Many of their ideas will be stupid, but overall, the intense scrutiny of reasonably intelligent people is a very good thing.

1) He has a history of disgusting and idiotic behavior. This is hardly an isolated incident.

The old "sorry if you were offended" non-apology. Either give a sincere apology or stand by your disgusting behavior.

Hal Hartley was offered Dude, Where's My Car?, so that wouldn't be the strangest filmmaker/project pairing. In a recent interview, Cameron Crowe said he tried to get Billy Wilder to direct the music video for Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun." And he wasn't joking.

1) Does anyone else want to see Terrence Malick do a comedy of some kind? His first known film was a comedic short called "Lanton Mills," starring Harry Dean Stanton and Warren Oates. I think it's time to shake things up.

Oh no, that part isn't rumored at all (yet). It's just an example I used to show how the biggest challenge isn't technical ("CGI or recasting?"). It's resolving whatever thematic arc they had planned.

They haven't officially said anything — just leak reports from trades. Also, her role in Ep7 wasn't that big. As for Ep8, it wouldn't be the whole movie, but supposedly it's a major chunk.

If rumors are to be believed, the problem is more thematic than technical:

There was "no real continuity of creative vision" from 4 to 5 to 6.

I'll never forget the TV Guide capsule description for Fire Walk With Me:

I remember Carson Daly of all people getting it right his first season. He struck a good balance between the simplified Dick Cavett format and the demands of a modern network talk show.

Comedies that aren't just actors riffing and being "outrageous."

Like her daughter, Debbie Reynolds had a helluva personality and sense of humor. I found this random fan recording on YouTube, where she tells a funny story behind the famous "You Were Meant For Me" number from Singin' In The Rain.

I'm grateful that the press tour for The Force Awakens gave the world one last chance to see how special Carrie Fisher was. It was a blast seeing her do these honest, hilarious interviews in a forum where every other guest is internally focus grouping everything they say.

The biggest compliment and criticism I made of The Force Awakens is that "I can't wait to see what happens next." It fully reinvigorated my love of Star Wars while having clear room for improvement in the next installment.

The "everyone dies" ending had me a little choked up, but it was mostly a sucker punch. We're simply not used to seeing good guys we know by name perish against the bad guys. So that was definitely a risk well-taken. The problem is that we didn't really care about those characters due to the ensemble nature of the…

Kylo Ren. Both a natural choice for a villain (Leia's son gone bad) and a weird meta-commentary on obsessive fandom (Vader worship). Both genuinely dangerous (strange new powers) and comically "emo" (childish tantrums). Inhuman in some ways (no apparent sexual or monetary desires) yet all too human in other ways…

I blame the abundance of TV shows (and resultant Christmas episodes) on various platforms and the annual flood of Hallmark, Lifetime and Ion Christmas movies. Respectable screenwriters don't want to write in that space anymore because it's jam-packed and seen as junk. So it's slim pickings to begin with.

It broke my brain. I swear half that movie was filmed against a green screen in Mariah's living room.