New Films in Production, v.2

[yoloswegmaster]

Netflix is the home for the new Safdies/Sandler film. It's also said to likely be set in the world of "high-end card collecting".

[DarkImbecile]

Pablo Larrain and Steven Knight to reteam on Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas

[colinr0380]

Netflix is the home for the new Safdies/Sandler film. It's also said to likely be set in the world of "high-end card collecting".

Sounds as if it could be an unofficial Logan Paul biopic.

[yoloswegmaster]

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara will star in Pawel Pawlikowski’s next feature, which is tentatively titled “The Island.”

[yoloswegmaster]

Take this with a grain of salt since it is coming from Jordan Ruimy but Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Stone Matress’, starring Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh, is set to start shooting in December.

[thirtyframesasecond]

Neeson is terrific in Life's Too Short, from forgetting who Warwick Davis is to his gradual worsening of the doctor's joke. Should add though that Gervais used the same kind of punchline in an episode of The Office (the training episode).

[Calvin]

Nils Malmros is coming out of retirement to direct a film based on a newly discovered manuscript by Faroese writer Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, who wrote the novel Barbara that he previously adapted

[Beloved Aunt]

Old news (2017) but this seems to have flown very much under the world's radar: John MacNaughton, whoever that is, is involved in making a film of Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find":
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/343 ... hard-find/

imdb says it's in pre-production, five years later. It's apparently scripted by one half of the same duo of brothers who wrote Wise Blood for John Huston, Benedict Fitzgerald. I think the Fitzgerald family is very involved with the O'Connor estate, or something. It's my favorite Flannery story, and it could make an amazing film! Though given the movie undustry's track record with canonized Great Literature, I'm only very cautiously optimistic. Wise Blood is, on the other hand, easily the worst work I've seen from her, to the point where for me there's no point in filming it at all.

[The Narrator Returns]

Todd Haynes is currently shooting May December, a drama with Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. It'll be his first movie without Ed Lachman since Velvet Goldmine (Lachman was set to do it but he broke his hip shortly before production started), with Christopher Blauvelt taking Lachman's place.

[therewillbeblus]

Spielberg is attached to direct an original story starring the character Frank Bullitt.

Bradley Cooper is now apparently our generation's Steve McQueen

[knives]

Checks out. Does that make Alias our generation’s Wanted Dead or Alive?

[ryannichols7]

Ang Lee is returning to Mandarin and is scouting in Malaysia for locations. I personally think Lee needs a comeback big time - he has such potential and has made some seriously great films. and The Ice Storm aside, the best ones are his mandarin works.

since the article discusses Lee potentially getting the wonderful dish Bak Kut Teh in Malaysia, I will take this opportunity to remind everyone he's a massive foodie and this is one of the best pictures of all time

[The Narrator Returns]

I don't know if this is what he was scouting for, but Ang Lee will direct his son Mason in a biopic of Bruce Lee.

[DarkImbecile]

Nikyatu Jusu will be directing a direct sequel to Night of the Living Dead

[Mr Sausage]

Nikyatu Jusu will be directing a direct sequel to Night of the Living Dead

I didn't see the point until I read this line: "[it] is intended to reignite Night of the Living Dead as a franchise". So that's it. They want their own cinematic universe. Seems unnecessary--horror is one of the few things that remains consistently profitable without needing a larger IP umbrella. People will even go see 2.5 hour sequels to indie horror films they've never heard of (ie. Terrifier 2).

[DarkImbecile]

According to Deadline, Eli Roth is finally making a feature-length Thanksgiving

[colinr0380]

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

OK, that sounds a lot more interesting than Pitch Perfect 2.

And here's the trailer.

[yoloswegmaster]

Mike Leigh to begin shooting his new, secretive film this year.

[FrauBlucher]

New Lord of the Rings in the works from Warner Bros. No story details yet

[thirtyframesasecond]

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

OK, that sounds a lot more interesting than Pitch Perfect 2.

And here's the trailer.

Cocaine Bear was good fun, particularly if you're watching with an audience that goes along with the sheer ludicrousness of the film. There isn't much to explain really as the title tells you all you need to know. It's completely absurd and the cast play it pretty seriously, and at just over 90 mins, it moves at a fair lick too. Not sure I'd rewatch at home, but chalk it down as a fine cinema experience.

[colinr0380]

As long as Cocaine Bear is at least as good as Grizzly Rage I will be happy.

[The Narrator Returns]

Don't know how I missed this, but Brady Corbet is in pre-production on his next film, titled The Brutalist, with a terrific cast including Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Mark Rylance, Sebastian Stan, Issach De Bankolé, Vanessa Kirby, Alessandro Nivola, as well as Vox Lux's Raffey Cassidy and Stacy Martin.

Any word on if this project is still happening? It still reads as in pre-production online with no updates since 2020, and I have to imagine this cast isn't going to wait around forever...

The agency representing Lol Crawley (Corbet's DP) posted a news item about it adding crew members a week ago, with at least the top three of Edgerton, Cotillard, and Rylance still being attached.

EDIT: The CV of the newly-hired costume designer doesn't list Edgerton but has Cotillard, Rylance, and Kirby, plus Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.

[therewillbeblus]

Well that's the least brutal news of the day, thanks!

[DarkImbecile]

Um, we might get Gladiator 2 after all.

Denzel Washington may take the second lead role opposite Paul Mescal; Paramount is apparently confident enough that it will happen that they've set a Thanksgiving 2024 release date

[DarkImbecile]

Jordan Peele’s untitled fourth film has been set for release on Christmas Day 2024