Wow, bold. The Wachowski siblings — Lana and Andy — have a new project in the works and it sounds infinitely better than their 2008 eyeball-searing spectacle, “Speed Racer” (misunderstood, my ass).
And really, it actually potentially sounds like their best. movie. ever, and dear god, we want this movie to happen so badly. The brothers best movie actually is their sophomore 1996 pulpy lesbian noir, “Bound,” and this new project sounds like a return to that territory.
Their new script, which they are currently shopping around at Cannes is a gay, hard-R Iraq War picture about an homosexual American solider who falls in love with an Iraqi. God, that sort of sounds pretty fucking amazing and surely put audiences in uncomfortable territory.
According to Deadline it’s a “cinema verite-style treatment that begins in the near future and then spans back over years that include the current war in Iraq.” So is this the “secret futuristic war movie” that /Film has been poking around about that includes appearances by Arianna Huffington and Jesse Ventura?
Sure sounds like it, though we have to admit, the futuristic element of the film is far less appealing to us and we’d sort of love America to confront a here-and-now gay Iraq war film. That’s all the details so far. Maybe they’re merging those fetishistic sequences in the 3rd “Matrix” films — bondage gear and all — with the more blatant sexual proclivities of “Bound”?
Hey, if it titillates and potentially outrages the middle of the country, and is nothing like the last two “Matrix” films (oof, they were akin to Lucas’ “Star Wars” prequels in their myth-killing) and “Speed Racer,” we’ll be down with that. Now, will some major studio actually have the balls to fund this? Stay tuned for more.
