Shane Carruth is apparently at a crossroads in his career. After his first two features, “Primer” and “Upstream Color,” were able to garner him a fairly loyal fanbase, the filmmaker hasn’t been able to get a new film financed. Unfortunately, that has forced the writer-director to alter his original plans, perhaps leaving behind projects that he’s worked years on to get made, including his feature “The Modern Ocean.” And it appears that Carruth has decided to officially move on from that project with a recent tweet.
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On Twitter, Carruth shared the script for his unproduced “Modern Ocean” film. And though he seemed reluctant about it before, it appears the filmmaker thinks that releasing the script now “might be fun.”
He tweeted, “I kept it quiet for a long time because…I don’t like scripts because they are not movies and movies are not film and I just didn’t want to be embarrassed. But now I think it might be fun. It’s all good, now.”
The script for “The Modern Ocean” comes soon after the filmmaker released a teaser for his unproduced sci-fi film, “A Topiary.” That film and “The Modern Ocean” are projects that Carruth teased for a long time and seemed like would happen, but never came to be.
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The timing of these releases comes after a recent interview we had with the filmmaker where he minced no words about the fact these two films are likely dead.
“It’s hard to explain what ‘A Topiary’ and ‘The Modern Ocean’ mean to me,” he admitted. “It would be like saying that I have a daughter or two daughters and now I don’t have them anymore. So, the question is, ‘Hey, do you want to revive your daughter?’ Of course, I do. Of course, I do. I love her. I love [them]. But… I don’t know what I would do with a reanimated corpse.”
He added, “So, I think if I do my next deal, I’ll probably leave those works behind.”
In addition to the script, Carruth went a step further and released pieces of music that he thinks people should play along with their reading. This clearly adds to the idea that the filmmaker has a very distinct vision for this film, even though he was unable to get funding to make it happen.
So, if you are one of the many that wish Shane Carruth would make another film, you may not get to see “The Modern Ocean” on the big screen, but at least you can read the script, listen to the sounds, and imagine what his feature might have been like.