It’s been nearly seven years since filmmaker Jonathan Glazer released his film “Under the Skin.” And before that, he only had two other films under his belt, dating back to 2000. But it appears that the filmmaker is set to begin work on his next film, an untitled Holocaust film, to be produced by A24, Film4, Access Entertainment, and producer James Wilson.
According to Deadline, Glazer has agreed to write and direct an untitled World War II film that will use the Holocaust setting to tell a fairly unlikely story. The film is apparently loosely based on author Martin Amis’ novel “The Zone Of Interest.” The book tells the story of a Nazi officer that finds himself falling for the wife of the camp’s commandant. The story follows their torrid, secretive love affair, while the spurned husband begins to suspect his wife.
Obviously, that’s the type of story that might get some headlines, considering how society has become fairly concerned recently with how Nazis are portrayed in cinema, with films like “Jojo Rabbit” getting criticized for attempting to show the soldiers are anything more than monsters. It’s clear that the novel’s plot, which could easily be summed up as a Nazi love story, might raise a few eyebrows.
Glazer is probably best known for his films “Sexy Beast” and the aforementioned “Under the Skin.” This isn’t the first time that we’ve heard that the filmmaker has a Holocaust-set film in his sights. Back in 2018, he was being interviewed and said that he was working on a film set during World War II.
At the time, he described his inspiration for the project, saying, “I remember being very taken by the faces of the bystanders, the onlookers, the complicit, you know? Ordinary Germans. I started wondering how it would be possible to stand by and watch that. Some of the faces actually enjoy it. The spectacle of it. The kinda circus of it.”
No word on when the film might be released, but it’s being reported that the untitled period film will begin filming in 2020.
