New Films in Production, v.2

[therewillbeblus]

Attack the Block 2

Nice, though I'm far less interested in Boyega returning and will see this based on the other kids, most notably scene-stealing Alex Esmail's involvement. They should have really just had him become star in his own sequel.

[Pavel]

Franco Nero's new film The Man Who Drew God will feature Kevin Spacey's first performance in ~4 years

[black&huge]

Franco Nero's new film The Man Who Drew God will feature Kevin Spacey's first performance in ~4 years

for some reason to me this is pretty wild news. All of it.

[therewillbeblus]

Lanthimos' next feature will be Poor Things, featuring Emma Stone as “a volatile, oversexed, emancipated woman and a female Frankenstein”

Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and Willem Dafoe cast, with Dafoe appropriately playing the Dr. Frankenstein-esque character

[ianthemovie]

Todd Haynes to direct Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in a drama titled May December, to begin filming in 2022.

[FrauBlucher]

Oh, that sounds interesting

[DarkImbecile]

Deadline is reporting that Charles Burnett is set to direct the escape-from-slavery drama Steal Away

[beamish14]

I believe this is different from another recently announced project regarding the Middle Passage, although Caldecott Chubb (who co-produced Glass Shield and To Sleep With Anger) was attached to that one as well.

Burnett has turned down a lot of projects over the years. I don't think he cares for Hollywood's development process and he only aligns himself with material he can have absolutely control over. Very little-known fact: he turned down the chance to direct the Eddie Murphy vehicle The Distinguished Gentleman (1992), which would have netted him a salary that was almost as large as the budget of To Sleep With Anger.

[therewillbeblus]

Sarah Polley's first directorial effort in nearly a decade, Women Talking, will star Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw

[therewillbeblus]

Joaquin Phoenix will reteam with wife Rooney Mara and Lynne Ramsay for her next film, Polaris

[Pavel]

Walter Hill working on a new western titled Dead for a Dollar; will star Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe

[Maltic]

Walter Hill working on a new western titled Dead for a Dollar; will star Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe

Late style incoming.

Hill did three of the best Westerns from the last 41 years. Maybe that's not saying much... but still, they're good.

The synopsis here smells a bit of contrived wokeness, but if that was what it took to get the project off the ground, so be it...

[knives]

Over course his films from the last twenty years, at least, haven’t been so hot.

[Mr Sausage]

I’m super excited for Argento’s next horror film. He made ten of the best horror films of the last 50 years!

[therewillbeblus]

David Fincher to direct The Killer with Michael Fassbender, from a script by Se7en's Andrew Kevin Walker

Will start shooting in November

[Cremildo]

Walter Salles to direct I'm Still Here, adapted from the eponymous Marcelo Rubens Paiva memoir.

[Cremildo]

Michelle Williams will star as Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six wives, in Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand.

Andrey Zvyagintsev will make his English-language debut with What Happens.

[ianthemovie]

Bill Condon to direct a new film of Guys and Dolls.

For some reason the author of this article seems to think Guys and Dolls is set during the Depression.

[DarkImbecile]

Here's an unexpected development: Universal drops $400m on a new Exorcist trilogy starring Leslie Odom, Jr., and Ellen Burstyn

[colinr0380]

Michelle Williams will star as Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six wives, in Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand.

*counts on fingers* Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded,.... phew!

Here's an unexpected development: Universal drops $400m on a new Exorcist trilogy starring Leslie Odom, Jr., and Ellen Burstyn

I wonder if Universal is wanting to go down the Insidious/Conjuring route and have an older lady roaming the world exorcising people. Maybe Burstyn is going to become the new Lin Shaye figure, troubled by events from her past but it being something pushing her forward to keep performing her daily exercises!

I am cautious about this news however as only Exorcist III really captured my interest from the original run of films.

[Jack Kubrick]

Ridley Scott's Gucci project with Lady Gaga may potentially have Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver and Jared Leto in it's cast

[therewillbeblus]

David Yates will make a sharp turn following latest Harry Potter-world film to direct opioid dram(edy?)

I haven't seen Yates' smaller-scale dramatic debut, so he may know what he's doing, but when a sensationalist, whimsical director is helming a script being compared to Wolf of Wall Street and as a drama tackling the Opioid Epidemic, there are more than a few red flags that arise and make me expect this to be offensive on some level.

[Mr Sausage]

I haven’t seen any of it really, but his tv work for the BBC seems quite hard hitting, tackling sex trafficking and political conspiracies, among other things. Yates may be on solider ground than his Potter work would suggest.

[therewillbeblus]

That's good to hear- I know he's tried to emulate Spielberg in a lot of ways (I believe through self-admission) since his earlier career, so I'm still not convinced he'll return to that mode even if he can. We'll see

[thirtyframesasecond]

I haven’t seen any of it really, but his tv work for the BBC seems quite hard hitting, tackling sex trafficking and political conspiracies, among other things. Yates may be on solider ground than his Potter work would suggest.

The BBC mini-series, State of Play, was superb - remade as the much less decent Affleck/Crowe film of course.