Tim Burton To Deconfuse Pirates Of The Caribbean 4? Helena Bonham Carter should learn swordfighting quickly, because if Tim Burton is tapped to direct Pirates Of The Caribbean 4, she'll have to be in it. Oh, didn't we mention? Tim Burton might be directing Pirates Of The Caribbean 4. It's just a rumour for now, but Disney is thought to want to retain Burton's services after he's finished with Alice In Wonderland if Pirates Of The Caribbean director Gore Verbinski gets bored of it all. Of course, hiring Tim Burton for Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 might seem like something of a risk, but it really isn't - after all, Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 went on for about 15 hours and couldn't have made any less sense if it was an East European claymation film about the inside of a twig, so there's genuinely nothing that Tim Burton could do that would bugger the series up any further.

Kenneth Branagh Wants To Direct Thor When you think of films about disabled medical students who touch magical hammers and become crime-fighting Norse gods, the first name that springs to mind is obviously Kenneth Branagh. Isn't it? It isn't? In fact Kenneth Branagh would probably be one of the last people you'd associate with something that brawny and gormless? Well tell that to Marvel, because they're currently in talks with Kenneth Branagh about their new Thor movie. In short, Kenneth Branagh wants to direct Thor. Kenneth Branagh directing a summertime comic book movie like Thor might sound slightly ridiculous, but the idea has potential - with any luck Branagh will turn Thor into a cross between his modern-day romantic musical interpretation of Love's Labour Lost and that Frankenstein movie where he made Robert De Niro dress up like Sloth from The Goonies and run around the north pole. Ace!

Some Fool Lets Tim Allen Direct A Film

You know where you are with Tim Allen - you're either in a cinema full of bored children or the Sandstone Federal Correctional Institute listening to the billionth anecdote about sneaking drugs through Kalamazoo airport.

But Tim Allen has worked out that only starring in films about Santa Claus won't win him an Oscar. Indie comedies are what'll win him an Oscar, which is why Tim Allen has signed up to make his directorial debut with the comedy Crazy On The Outside.

Don't worry, though, this isn't some guffy ego-puffing vanity project, because Tim Allen isn't even going to star in Crazy On The Outsi... what's that? He is going to star in Crazy On The Outside? OK, well in that case it is a guffy ego-puffing vanity project. Sorry about the mix up.