So your new movie opens to mega-bucks dollars ($274 million worldwide so far) and what do you do? If you’re Michael Bay you drop some lip-service about making an small-scaled indie picture, but instead go back to your bread and butter of bigger, harder, faster, dumber, stronger (i.e. “Transformers 3”).
If you’re “Twilight Saga: New Moon” director Chris Weitz, you’re practically embarrassed by your achievement and run screaming in the opposite direction.
“There’s no special effects. It’s just people talking to each other,” told EW of his boring, new, CGI-less new movie, “The Gardener.”
Last we heard, the story was about “a hard-working immigrant who lives in Los Angeles and his efforts to protect his son.” Written by Eric Eason (“Manito“), if you’re dying to know more about this project — which we know you are — Weitz adds to EW that it “centers on a single father who has a chance to strike out on his own by buying his boss’ truck.”
Sounds very small-scale like, “Trucker” and knowing Eason’s work and considering “hard-working immigrants” centered in L.A. (where this one is shooting), it’s pretty safe to say we’ll see Hispanic protagonists for the two leads.
Weitz will once again use, ‘New Moon’ cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe and says the film will hopefully begin filming as early as March or April 2010. “I still feel like I haven’t shown everything I can do. The one that will let me rest is still out there,” Weitz said, hinting at an early retirement yet again. “I think it might be ‘The Gardener.’ “
