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After First Reformed, I'm excited for anything from Schrader, especially with Isaac as the lead.

The film, written and directed by Schrader, follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.

That's a name ripe for interpretation!

Hey, hook this project to my veins, thanks

Cast now also includes Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, and Tiffany Haddish

DarkImbecile wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 5:21 pm

The film, written and directed by Schrader, follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.

That's a name ripe for interpretation!

First Reformed had lots of character name references too btw.

domino harvey wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:24 pm Cast now also includes Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, and Tiffany Haddish

Sheridan must be playing the "angry young man" that Tell takes under wing.

Throw in Haddish and Dafoe and this is one fascinating cast.

From the Metrograph interview also linked in the Filmmaker thread for Schrader:

In my films, I’ll sort of combine two worlds that seem to have nothing to do with each other. In the new one, it’s the world series of poker and Abu Ghraib.

I'm fairly certain this would have been at Cannes had Covid not happened; either way, it is being screened in an unfinished form (five days' worth of scenes had yet to shoot when production ceased) for buyers at the Marche Du Film

Shooting has wrapped. Focus has acquired domestic rights and Hanway has worldwide rights. Schrader says on his Facebook that Focus is expecting a 2021 release date for this.

Somehow missed this Vulture interview from back in April. Very informative (Geoff Barrow is doing the score?!) and--as is typical for Schrader--entertaining, wry, and bleak.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/paul-sc ... ovies.html

I love how you have a movie like a TENET where Nolan won't even let the actors have full scripts and then you got this interview where Schrader is telling some journalist the entire story of THE CARD COUNTER in great detail, lol. Thankfully the interview stops relaying Schrader's plot recounting after the first act.

Wondering if we're getting Academy ratio again? Kind of looks like it from that.

I am probably too excited for this one. But First Reformed was my favorite movie of the past 5 years. Maybe ten years, really.

I think this one sounds good but unlikely to come close to FR. Still, I can't help myself. I refresh the IMDB page like every other day just to find out who is playing Casino Patron #4 or who the set dresser is.

Releasing theatrically on September 10th this year.

So in the one article Schrader mentioned that Barrow & Salisbury were doing the score but currently IMDB lists the composers as Giancarlo Vulcano (who has mostly done comedic TV like Kimmy Schmidt) and Robert Levon Been (of the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club). Levon Been is also credited with "songs and lyrics."

So that's interesting!

Schrader spilled the beans (seemingly against normal protocol) at a recent Blue Collar screening that this will be screening at Telluride and Venice.

The Narrator Returns wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:18 am this will be screening at Telluride

Both of which festivals are right before the supposed theatrical release date of Sept. 10th.

Persona wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:14 am So in the one article Schrader mentioned that Barrow & Salisbury were doing the score but currently IMDB lists the composers as Giancarlo Vulcano (who has mostly done comedic TV like Kimmy Schmidt) and Robert Levon Been (of the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club). Levon Been is also credited with "songs and lyrics."

So that's interesting!

And, of course, Robert Been is the son of the late great Michael Been who wrote the songs for Schrader's Light Sleeper.

Hadn't thought of that! Wonderful point.

Would it even be a late-period Schrader movie if it didn't rip off the ending to Pickpocket?

Haha, yeah I noticed that too - that's a pretty heavy spoiler inserted in there! Though my initial thought was

Spoiler

that the fingers moving towards the prison glass would be an ambiguous 'dream' ending

though, now that I'm thinking about it, that also fits squarely within his recent wheelhouse

To the point where I can't help but wonder if it's a deliberate misdirect - I think it's a bit funny that the trailer is generally edited to make the film resemble something like The Canyons when everything Schrader has said about the movie has run in the other, artier, more apocalyptic direction