New Films in Production, v.2

[Never Cursed]

David Mamet to direct and co-write a JFK assassination drama centering around the purported role of the mob in the event

Could not possibly be more excited for the return of our most insane living playwright to film

[therewillbeblus]

Hopefully he's still able to expel the linguistic wit that's apparently been absent from his recent written work.. I'll remain cautiously optimistic

[domino harvey]

As someone who has actually read his recent work, I have zero hopes, sadly. He did seem lucid in the Indicator interview though, so that’s something

[Never Cursed]

Oh I'm sure all his most recent plays have been garbage (his books sure are), I just hope that being entrusted with a larger-scale production (hopefully not exclusively sold on his name alone) means that he has to rein in his dumber impulses

[knives]

Hopefully he's still able to expel the linguistic wit that's apparently been absent from his recent written work.. I'll remain cautiously optimistic

I did like his most recent film work, that HBO one, and if my mental timeline serves that was post decline.

[swo17]

Phil Spector from 2013?

[therewillbeblus]

Hopefully he's still able to expel the linguistic wit that's apparently been absent from his recent written work.. I'll remain cautiously optimistic

I did like his most recent film work, that HBO one, and if my mental timeline serves that was post decline.

All his actual movies have been good, or at least competent (I know there are mixed feelings on Oleanna's casting, but I wouldn't call it a bad movie) so I don't think that's where the fear comes from. People have been vocal about his written and stage work post-Phil Spector taking a plummet, and that film has its supporters here from those who have the most active experience marking his decline while consuming his work, like domino. The films he did prior to that were some of his best work ever, so there's still hope... that Never Cursed will dutifully clutch onto for the rest of us

[domino harvey]

Amy Adams is producing and starring in Marielle Heller’s next film, Nightbitch, about a suburban mom who thinks she’s turning into a dog. And they say there are no new ideas!

[soundchaser]

Amy Adams and Marielle Heller is one of those combinations that feels so obvious once it’s written like that. Count me in!

[PfR73]

Amy Adams is producing and starring in Marielle Heller’s next film, Nightbitch, about a suburban mom who thinks she’s turning into a dog. And they say there are no new ideas!

(Italicized by me for emphasis).
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not at the end, because as intriguing as this combination is, my first thought was "didn't Marianna Palka already make this movie?"

[brundlefly]

The first association that came to mind was "The Curse," the housewife werewolf issue from Alan Moore's "American Gothic" arc in Swamp Thing.

SpoilerShow

Which had its own lame double entendre. Werewolves/menstruation.

[lzx]

Andrew Haigh's next film, Strangers, will star Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell. It's an adaptation of a 1987 Taichi Yamada novel, which has already been made once into a movie (directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi!).

[Cremildo]

Víctor Erice will be returning to the director's chair after three decades with Close Your Eyes.

[Swift]

Daniel Kaluuya's production company making an apparently dark Barney movie

[swo17]

Where are you seeing that it will be dark? It sounds like he wants it to be a sincere Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood-type of film

[flyonthewall2983]

Woody Harrelson to star in Sailing, a “yacht rock musical comedy”

[therewillbeblus]

Woody loves his yachts these days

[Calvin]

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

This seems to be going direct-to-Blu-Ray and is available to pre-order with a October 4th release date

[DarkImbecile]

Apple must be really happy with Killers of the Flower Moon, because they want to get the band back together ASAP with Scorsese and DiCaprio adapting The Wager, the latest book by Flower Moon author David Grann

[diamonds]

Zoë Kravitz set to debut with Pussy Island.

[therewillbeblus]

Dumb Money, based on the 2021 GameStop stock squeeze will be helmed by Craig Gillespie and star Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, and Pete Davidson

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Back in 2020 Tian Zhuangzhuang wrapped Cry of the Birds, his first film as a director in over a decade; it's a longtime passion project of Tian's, adapted from Ah Cheng's Cultural Revolution novella The King of Trees. (Its two companion novellas, The King of Children and The King of Chess, have of course been adapted before.) Then there was a long stretch of radio silence, which might've optimistically been chalked up to the unstable market conditions given the ongoing pandemic and China's "zero-Covid" policies... but in a feature-length interview doc released last month to coincide with his receipt of something called the "Chaplin Award Asia," Tian said the film was submitted to the censors two years ago and he hasn't heard a thing since. He sounds resigned to the whole situation and that he's "lost hope in movies again." For more fun stuff, some kind soul has uploaded the whole doc to YouTube, but the only subtitles are in Chinese.

[therewillbeblus]

Borderline, a comedic thriller starring the excellent Samara Weaving from Ready or Not and the great Eric Dane from Euphoria!

[therewillbeblus]

Elizabeth Banks directed a thriller called Cocaine Bear, inspired by true events that took place in 1985 Kentucky, during which a 175-pound black bear ingested 88 pounds of pure cocaine and went on a murderous rampage. A star-studded cast includes Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., and the late Ray Liotta

[therewillbeblus]

Fingernails, a sci-fi love story starring Riz Ahmed, Jessie Buckley(!!), and Jeremy Allen White, directed by Christos Nikou