Sometimes, best laid plans just don’t work out, and had things gone differently, Claire Denis‘ star-studded sci-fi “High Life” would already be in the can, and we’d be eagerly waiting the new movie next year. However, while the film didn’t shoot this past May as originally scheduled, the good news is that it’s still on track, with Andrew Lauren Productions, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Film Produktion, The Apocalypse Films and Madants teaming up to produce and finance the movie. And even better, the film has retained all of the talent involved.
Next spring, “High Life” will finally go into production. The ambitious project stars Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth, with a script by Denis, Zadie Smith and Nick Laird about a group of skilled criminals who trade in facing jail time and capital punishment for agreeing to participate in a likely fatal government space mission into a black hole, where they will be tasked with finding alternate energy sources and will be part of human reproduction experiments. Damn, yes, sign us up.
Denis regular and Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples is already on board to provide the music, and now we just have to patiently wait until 2018 to see the movie. But we’re sure it’ll be worth it.