The Wachowskis have been playing around this one for a while, shooting enigmatic test footage with the random likes of Arianna Huffington and Jesse Ventura, but it looks like things are a go as Production Weekly has tweeted that their next film is cryptically titled “CN9” and that casting has begun.
Not much is known about the film except that it’s a gay, hard-R Iraq War picture about a homosexual American solider who falls in love with an Iraqi. It was also described as a ” cinema verite-style treatment that begins in the near future and then spans back over years that include the current war in Iraq.” So, in short, we still sort of don’t really know what it’s about. Adding to the mystery surrounding the film, CN9 (unless it’s an abbreviation for something they made up entirely) is actually shorthand for the glossopharyngeal nerve — or the ninth cranial nerve — that receives information from the tongue, tonsils, pharynx and middle ear among others. How does this all tie in? We have no fucking clue, but we think it’s pretty safe to guess that the Wachowskis are returning to the world of sensation/reality bending.
We liked “Bound” and the first “The Matrix” film, but everything else has kind of been terrible. That said, we’re thrilled by the almost bonkers high concept of this one and if the Wachowskis can keep the sci-fi relatively simple and sane, this could be something special. We’re kind of curious where funding on this one is coming from because we can’t imagine any major studio coming near this. But with casting underway, we’re sure more news will arrive shortly. Stay tuned….