New Films in Production, v.2

[domino harvey]

Elaine May has a comedy ready to film with Dakota Johnson and Sebastian Stan, but she can’t shoot because the insurance company is requiring her to line up a shadow director (a la the last Altman film)

Allegedly still happening in the fall

[flyonthewall2983]

Someone named yet?

[hearthesilence]

It only says:

Having now been an active producer on a number of projects — including one to be directed by 93-year-old comedy legend Elaine May that Johnson says she hopes could be shooting in the fall — has made it different for her when, on a film like “Materialists,” she is an actor only.

[FrauBlucher]

Mel Brooks is ready to give it another go at 98 (God bless him) with a sequel to spaceballs more info Here...

[beamish14]

Mel Brooks is ready to give it another go at 98 (God bless him) with a sequel to spaceballs more info Here...

Fucking Josh Gad, so no thanks

Also, no mention of Daphne Zuniga in any press I’ve seen regarding this

[diamonds]

Back in March, it was reported that Mikhaël Hers is set to begin shooting his next film Une autre histoire in August:

Une autre histoire follows the story of Simona, a forty-something who grew up in the south of England. For several years, she has been a teacher in Annecy, where she lives with her husband and daughter. As the summer holidays approach, she receives an unexpected message. A past she thought she had erased resurfaces, questioning and jeopardizing the balance of her new life.

Starring Alba Rohrwacher(!) and Bastien Bouillon.

[TechnicolorAcid]

Radu Jude is apparently working on a Frankenstein film with Sebastian Stan.

[beamish14]

Radu Jude is apparently working on a Frankenstein film with Sebastian Stan.

I truly don’t understand what people see in Sebastian Stan. Also, this is the third major adaptation of this work to be in production this year?

[brundlefly]

Radu Jude is apparently working on a Frankenstein film with Sebastian Stan.

I truly don’t understand what people see in Sebastian Stan. Also, this is the third major adaptation of this work to be in production this year?

I haven't been impressed by Stan's performances either (though my exposure has been spotty), but good on him if he's going to use Marvel-won name recognition to funnel money to smaller projects and auteurs from his birth country. And safe to say Jude's Frankenstein (still in in the writing stages, according to the interview, and "a film that would start from the reality of the CIA prisons in Romania) would not resemble Gyllenhaal's or del Toro's. This is what he's doing to Dracula.

[domino harvey]

Any rising/popular actor with enough clout to help an arthouse name get their film made is A-OK in my book

[diamonds]

Dan Sallitt to shoot What Can’t Be Mentioned, a sequel to his 2012 film The Unspeakable Act, in the fall

[yoloswegmaster]

Martin Scorsese To Direct ‘What Happens At Night’ Next; Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Lawrence Star

[domino harvey]

Take it with a grain of salt, but a user on AW claims Leonardo DiCaprio will be in Damien Chazelle’s next film— that’s one way to immediately get out of Director Jail that I didn’t see coming!

Chazelle’s next film will star Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig and starts filming next week

[FrauBlucher]

Just noticed this from IMDB. Asghar Farhadi next film is Parallel Tales with an interesting cast of Vincent Cassell, Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve

[brundlefly]

Jane Schoenbrun's next film will be titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which they reportedly described as being a cross between Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Friday the 13th. Additionally, they told Gregg Araki that it will be

This will shoot this summer with a release next year from Mubi, and it stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

This sounds great. I am begging them to come up with literally any other title for the thing.

And following this, Schoenbrun has a straight-to-series deal with Netflix for an adaptation of Charles Burns' Black Hole.

[beamish14]

This will shoot this summer with a release next year from Mubi, and it stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

This sounds great. I am begging them to come up with literally any other title for the thing.

And following this, Schoenbrun has a straight-to-series deal with Netflix for an adaptation of Charles Burns' Black Hole.

Probably a better choice than David Fincher, but that book will be one tough nut to crack, especially as a series

[Matt]

I'm glad it will be a series and not a single movie. It needs the room to breathe. While I haven't particularly enjoyed Schoenbrun's films, I'm glad they exist. I think it's a very good match of material and filmmaker, much more so than Fincher.

[Never Cursed]

Per his takeover of Screen Slate's Instagram, Radu Jude is filming what appears to be a remake of Diary of a Chambermaid in France, with Ana Dumitrascu, Vincent Macaigne, Melanie Thierry, and Marie Rivière.

[domino harvey]

Impressive since there was a French remake not that long ago with Lea Seydoux

[Never Cursed]

Impressive since there was a French remake not that long ago with Lea Seydoux

This is this director's third in a row, after remakes of Europa '51 and of various versions of Dracula (among other things). Let's say that I imagine this will be as radical a departure from the Buñuel as the other films were from their respective inspirations

[domino harvey]

Technically Bunuel’s was a remake too, of Renoir’s American adaptation with Paulette Goddard (and they are quite different movies, so I have no doubt yet another adaptation of the novel could be markedly dissimilar)

[domino harvey]

Sydney Sweeney will play the Françoise Dorléac role in a L’homme de Rio remake

[domino harvey]

Alana Haim to star with Aubrey Plaza in Heidi Fleiss biopic

[domino harvey]

Weisz and Fraser are back for a new Mummy sequel by the directors of Ready or Not

[domino harvey]

New Gremlins sequel will be directed by Chris Columbus and produced by Spielberg, no Dante