Saturday Link-A-Mania

Grant Morrison MBE

• Comic writer Grant Morrison (Animal Man, The Invisibles, All-Star Superman) has been awarded an MBE (“for services to Film and Literature”) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. This does not mean we have to call him Sir Grant. He’s not a knight. Yet.

• Imagine Entertainment and street artist Shepard Fairey’s new version of Nineteen Eighty-Four now has a scriptwriter, Noah Oppenheim. [via Deadline]

• Once Upon a Time has promoted Meghan Ory – who plays Red Riding Hood/waitress Ruby – to a series regular for season two, reports Deadline.

• Real Steel and Night At The Museum director Sean Levy is set to produce a supernatural road movie called Monster Problems for Paramount. It’s described as Mad Max meets Zombieland meets a John Hughes movie. [via The Hollywood Reporter]

• Coming Soon has yet more Rekall posters from the Total Recall remake campaign.

• Scriptwriter Alex Kurtzman reveals why he and writing partner Roberto Orci (Fringe, Star Trek, Star Trek 2, Transformers) agreed to write the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, even though they weren’t involved in the original: “We jumped on, because we were so impressed with the movie and what Marc Webb has done with the movie. I just adore Matt Tolmach, who is the producer of the movie, and everyone at Sony has been so supportive of us. We felt really good about it and really passionate about it. When you’re growing up, if you’re a superhero lover, it’s like Batman, Spider-Man and Superman are the holy trinity of superheroes, so the opportunity to get involved with any one of those is like you get to let your kid play again… We’re exec producing as well and they’ve been very generous about letting us be involved with the process. But certainly what we don’t want to do is step on any toes and we’re really just there because we love Spider-Man so much.”

• Spider-Man creator Stan Lee has a chat with Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb.

• The release of the Michael Bay-produced Ninja Turtles (wonder if it’ll be renamed Hero Turtles in the UK?) reboot has been put back from Christmas 2013 to 16 May 2014.  Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans) is directing from a screenplay by Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol). [via Coming Soon]

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has officially joined the cast of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. She will play one of the “five wives”, a group of five women who are being transported across the film’s post-apocalyptic wasteland. Zoe Kravitz and Riley Keough play two of the other wives. [via Just Jared]