links for 2009-04-16

“This is quite a treat. Someone got ahold of some scripts from The Wire and posted them online.”

This is all kinds of yes: “Documentarian Errol Morris (Fog of War) will direct the Untitled Cryonics Project, which Zach Helm is writing, reports Variety.

Mandate Pictures and Steve Zaillian’s Film Rites are producing the dark comedy, which was inspired by both Robert F. Nelson’s memoir “We Froze the First Man” and a story that aired on NPR’s “This American Life” this week titled “You’re as Cold as Ice.”

The true story centers on Nelson, a TV repairman who in the 1960s joined a group of enthusiasts who believed they could cheat death with a new technology: cryonics. But freezing dead people so scientists could reanimate them in the future turned out to be harder than Nelson thought.”

The original Man on The Wire is going to do Round 2 some time this fall at an undisclosed location.

Well, I can’t go, obviously, but holy hell dig that Biskup design. Print, please.

Good thing they haven’t had multiple incidents in the past that might’ve tarnished their reputation. I’m just sayin’.

And then Chris Cunningham does a Gucci ad.

You’ve probably seen already, but in case not, David Lynch does animation for Moby.