Maybe he’s already trying to make amends for the bad ‘Lieutenant’ idea? This is rather odd, but geniusly demented. German filmmaker Werner Herzog will be teaming up with director turned transcendental-meditation enthusiast David Lynch for the murderous horror-drama “My Son, My Son.” The script was written by Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder and is loosely based on the true story of a disturbed man who acts out a Sophocles-like play in his mind and kills his mother. The project is said to be low-budget, shot in a digital video guerrilla-style (read: it will look like total ass) The film is tentatively set for March. We would pay copious amounts of money to be just an intern on that film set. [Hollywood Reporter]
Additionally, Lynch’s production company Absurda is also backing ’60s crackpot, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s next film, which is being described as a “metaphysical spaghetti gangster film,” set to star Udo Kier, Nick Nolte, Asia Argento and Marilyn Manson as prophet in the “Sin City”-style film. There’s apparently enough sex and violence to guarantee it an NC-17 rating. Well, that’s definitely something to write home about.
After much speculation on which book he’d actually be adapting, “Juno” director Jason Reitman has finally revealed that his next film will be an adaptation of the novel, “Up in the Air” by author Walter Kirn. The story chronicles a ruthless human resources exec in zealous pursuit of his millionth frequent flyer mile because his life otherwise sucks. Kirn previously wrote “Thumbsucker,” which was nicely adapted by director Mike Mills in 2005. [Variety]
Daniel Day-Lewis is in talks to take over Javier Bardem’s role in the Broadway musical adaptation of “Nine,” which itself was a quasi-adaptation of Fellini’s surrealistic classic, “8 1/2.” Bardem left the project during awards season cause he was too exhausted with receiving accolades and Ocsars to bother thinking about it. Day-Lewis is notoriously picky about choosing roles and can sit on a project for years, but French tinkerbell Marion Cotillard, plus Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, and Judi Dench are already on board the project, so that sounds rather hard to resist. Plus Harvey Weinstein is far, far up his ass at the very moment and the film is supposed to start shooting in the fall. Our odds have Day-Lewis caving. Rob Marshall who directed “Chicago” will helm. [Variety]
