Brady Corbet, the director behind the epic Oscar-winning melodrama “The Brutalist,” has clearifed some details about his next film after some reports have suggested the project would be “inspired by” an iconic slasher film, and would go on to confirm his plan is the shoot his untitled pic in 70mm possibly by next summer, which should make folks excited after some tantalizing tidibits about the project have been teased throughout the year by Corbet himself.
During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter to help promote his latest feature release, “The Testament of Ann Lee” (co-written and produced by Corbet alongside the film’s director Mona Fastvold), the filmmaker was directly asked about his follow-up feature and was quick to dispel various reporting that the movie has anything to do with Tobe Hooper‘s landmark ’70s slasher flick “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” However, Corbert did leave the door open to potentially cover that horror sub-genre in the future by stating he’d “love to make one, one day.”
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“Well, all I can say about the new film is that there’s been a lot of misinformation. It’s true that the film is an X-rated movie, and it’s true that it takes place mostly in the 1970s, but the film spans from the 19th century into the present day; it’s just predominantly focused on the ’70s. The film is really, really genre-defined. But it was reported that the movie has something to do with ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ which is not true at all. That is just inaccurate. I think that the reason that was misconstrued is that I was talking about making a film that’s set in the 1970s. It will owe a debt to films of the period, but it’s not a slasher film. I’d love to make one, one day, but this one’s not,” Corbet said of his next project, and some inaccuracies being reported about the project by sort of attempting to clear things up.
He added, “I just keep getting asked about it in interviews. They’re like, ‘I heard it’s inspired by ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre.‘ I’m like, ‘It’s about Northern California’s economy.’ But yeah, as of right now, I am doing camera tests for it all day tomorrow. It’s our third round of tests. We are shooting on really, really rarefied formats that have usually shot shots in movies, but not entire movies before.”
The filmmaker also revealed that the plan is to begin shooting the untitled feature in 70mm (a revival of a cinematic scope format on traditional film) sometime in the summer if everything goes as planned, “And the movie will be entirely shot on 70mm, which we’re really thrilled about. The plan is to work a lot with eight perforation and 15 perforation, which is exciting because it’s not an action movie. I love big spectacle, technical releases, so it’s interesting to have a film that is absolutely not that, that’s still shot with that same tech. We’re supposed to start next summer, but there’s nine months between now and then, so anything could happen, but we start prep next month. It’s territory that’s totally uncharted for us, which is always nerve-wracking and exciting in equal measure.”
Previously, Brady Corbet has talked up the idea of the new movie exploring “American mysticism” and that it may end up with another runtime over 3 hours, but without sharing enough plot/character details to truly grasp what exactly that entails. Again, like with most mysterious projects, the longer we wait, the more concrete information we’ll receive.
“The Testament of Ann Lee” arrives in theaters this Christmas thanks to Searchlight Pictures, and you can read The Playlist’s review of the upcoming religious drama starring Amanda Seyfried right here from our coverage of the Venice Film Festival.
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