How The West Was Lost

After watching the heartbreaking defeat my Colorado State Rams took on Saturday morning, I truly thought that the underdog will never win (especially when we throw the chance away). Now that I have washed my tear-soaked pillow cases and burned my ticket stub, I have gotten over the horrendous loss and am ready to move on. In hopes to assist my fellow Rams in their grieving, I have some news on television and movies that have to do with underdogs and their pursuit to defeat their respective goliaths.


Those who enjoyed watching Jason Bourne defeat an entire government agency with pens, dishrags and textbooks in the Bourne trilogy will be thoroughly excited that according to Dark Horizons, Dan Bradley, the stunt coordinator and second unit director of the last two Bourne films has been hired by Sony Pictures to do the same for the next Bond installment. Bradely has also done work for the new Indiana Jones movie as well.


The main editor, "Ari", of The Aspect Ratio has released a script review from the upcoming Speed Racer adaptation. The Wachowski brothers (Bound, Matrix Trilogy) are directing the G-rated flick with Emile Hirsch (Alpha Dog, The Girl Next Door) as Speed, John Goodman and Susan Sarandon as Ma and Pa, Christina Ricci as Trixie, and Matthew Fox (Lost) as Racer X.


Perhaps the show with last TV season's greatest season finale, Lost, might have the greatest off season when it comes to casting. So far J.J. Abrams and company have cast five new 'losties', all seasoned acting veterans. Jeremy Davies (the coward translator in Saving Private Ryan), Ken Leung (The Sopranos), English actress Rebecca Mader, Lance Reddick (The Wire), and Jeff Fahey (The Lawn Mower man) have all crash landed on the mysterious island. My best bet is that Mr. Fahey will be playing the role of 'Jacob' because of this picture. Lost Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse talked to Entertainment Weekly about their casting.

Our Rams could take a lesson or two from these shows, they might just bounce back and come up with an upset of their own against Cal.