Remember Martin Starr’s recent “announcement” (random talk in an interview) that he was writing a script with Charlyne Yi based on uncomfortable party experiences in L.A.?
In an interview with this guy, Starr says the film will have a familiar Hal Ashby vibe.
“We still haven’t worked out a lot of the details, but it’s basically a story about platonic love, the friendship between a young man and an old, decrepit woman…It definitely has a familiar [Harold and Maude-Like] tone to it, and well, oddly enough, it’s set in the ‘70s. Who knows what might change? The idea began because Charlyne had a revelation when she was with her boyfriend [Michael Cera] that she didn’t want to keep going to these events that she had no interest in. She had no interest in the people at them.”
If you’ve never seen “Harold & Maude” you should just quit now, but for further reference, it’s about a spoiled, bored and over-privileged teenager named Harold obsessed with death who falls in love with a ’70-year-old Maude after meeting her at a funeral. It’s bizarre and awesome as most of Ashby’s films are (here’s the trailer if you’ve never seen it).
Will the story ever get made in this economic climate? Seems too early to tell, as it doesn’t even sound like they’ve started working on it yet. Starr makes an appearance in “Paper Heart” in August, a quasi-documentary directed by Nicholas Jasenovec, and written by he and Yi about her relationship to Michael Cera.
