What Lauren Graham is up to

My number one gal Lauren Graham talked to Moviehole about her role in the out-now Evan Almighty, and you can read the interview right here.

She talks a little about life after Gilmore Girls and goes on to spill some beans about her upcoming projects:

“Well this movie I’m doing right now is called Laws of Motion. It’s an independent film that the playwright Craig Lucas is directing, and Hilary Swank is a producer on it and has a supporting part in it just to lend her name to it. And that’s really cool, actually, and inspiring to see an actress who has a company who is helping get stuff made because she believes in it. It’s the story of a dysfunctional family and Matthew Perry is my husband and we have sort of a quiet marriage that is in trouble and his brother and sister come to stay with us to disastrous results. And it’s just kind of a dark comedy but it’s a very conservative, preppy, shut-down character who is just trying to be nice to these people who she thinks are freaks. And so that’s a cool kind of different place to be. Then the next thing is I’m doing a wife world tour. I don’t know if you could tell. I’m playing Greg Kinnear’s wife in a movie about the man who invented the intermittent windshield wiper and it’s based on a true story. It’s a really great story because he felt that his patent was stolen by the car companies and he in real life spent his life not necessarily fighting for money, which he ended up getting quite a bit of, but fighting for the rights of inventors. And he’s a real figure among inventors as someone who really stood up for their rights and it’s like an amazing part for Greg. And in that one I have five kids.”

The Greg Kinnear windshield-wiper movie is tentatively called Flash of Genius, from first-time director Marc Abraham (who was a producer on Air Force One and Children of Men and lots of other things).

Video from the first day of Indy IV filming!

Our good friends over at the official Indiana Jones website have posted a video from the first day of filming!

Harrison Ford and the other major cast members — Cate Blanchett (as the villain), Ray Winstone (as the sidekick), Shia LaBeouf (as the son?), John Hurt (who’s reportedly playing Albert Einstein) and Jim Broadbent (as a Yale professor, playing a similar role to Marcus Brody, who was played by the late, great Denholm Elliott) — are nowhwere to be found, but you get to see director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas in the desert with fancy glasses and a coffee thermos full of champagne.

I like all the old-timey cars. Especially the old-timey Army car.

I still can’t believe this is happening! In 1989, I was excited because I was getting a Batman movie and an Indiana Jones movie. Next sumer, I’ll be getting a Batman movie and an Indiana Jones movie.

It’s a good time to be alive.

The top-secretly titled Fourth Installment of the Indiana Jones Adventures outruns a giant boulder made of popcorn in the theater near you on May 22, 2008!

Gary Oldman talks about playing Jim Gordon!

Source: Batman on Film

Gary Oldman, whose performance as Sgt. Jim Gordon in Batman Begins was one of my favorites from that film, recently spoke to Telegraph in the UK about his life and career.

Click on the photo of Oldman rockin’ the Gordon mustache to read the article.

Oldman says, “The character closest to me is Jim Gordon,” adding, “Got a good sense of right and wrong. Family man. Just a regular geezer.”

A regular geezer who, at the end of Batman Begins, was entrusted with the Batmobile by Batman and helped the Dark Knight stop Ra’s Al Ghul’s plan to force Gotham City to tear itself apart.

(One of my favorite shots in the whole film is when Batman is gliding away from having just escaped the train, and Gordon, having just done his part in the Batmobile, stands up and waves at Batman. I like how they portray Gordon as kind of a sweet nerd with a good heart full of hope in a city that can’t remember what that word even means.)

Gordon was promoted to lieutenant for his actions. “You really started something,” he tells Batman at the end, before they discuss how much work still needs to be done to bring Gotham back. Most chilling is Gordon’s warning to Batman about escalation. If Batman is wearing a mask and jumping off rooftops, what are the freaks and criminals — particularly those who’ve now escaped from Arkham Asylum, including The Scarecrow — going to start doing to raise their game against Batman?

Gordon then warns Batman about a new criminal on the scene, who shares Batman’s taste for the theatrical. Gordon flips over a joker card, Batman says he’ll look into it, and that brings us to the sequel, The Dark Knight, which is out on July 18, 2008.

(Lots more Batman coverage here.)

I also like Oldman’s quote in the article about how he doesn’t have a publicist and doesn’t go to parties or premieres. “I just have dinner at home every night with my kids.”

And!

Don’t forget to catch Gary this July 11 as Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which looks 47 kinds of awesome.