At the Playlist, Rodrigo Perez has notes on Simon Mayo‘s interview with Robert Pattinson in which the actor discusses his work with Josh and Benny Safdie on Good Time, a “really hardcore kind of Queens, New York, mentally damaged psychopath, bank robbery movie,” and with David and Nathan Zellner on Damsel, “a kind of slapstick comedy,” a western co-starring Mia Wasikowska. “And then hopefully [I’m] doing this 100% improvised movie afterwards.”
Also at the Playlist, Kevin Jagernauth passes along word that Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, aka The Daniels, directors of Swiss Army Man, have a project in the works “about which no plot details are being released. All that can be said is that it’s a sci-fi film, and the Daniels will be writing and directing it, which means it’s going to be something powered by their own distinct, delightfully weird voice.”
Jagernauth also reports that Room director Lenny Abrahamson has not only lined up “the ghost story The Little Stranger, the bisexual boxing drama A Man’s World, and the WWI movie The Grand Escape“—he’s also “signed up to directBurning Rainbow Farm. The adaptation of Dean Kuipers book will be scripted by Cory Finley, and tell the true story the pot-friendly Rainbow Farm in Michigan, which soon became the deadly target of the authorities looking to shut it down.”
Teaser for Michael Winterbottom‘s The Trip to Spain with Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan
“François Ozon has unveiled a provocative first image of his upcoming erotic thriller Amant double, co-starring Jérémie Renier and Marine Vacth,” reportsScreen‘s Melanie Goodfellow. “Vacth stars as a fragile young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. She moves in with him but soon discovers that her lover is concealing part of his identity.”
AARP Studios has set up its first project, and it stars Don Rickles, reportsDeadline‘s Denise Petski. “The 10-episode Dinner With Don will featuring Rickles dining with friends and fellow comedians at some of his favorite LA-area restaurants, with a guest list that includes Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, Marisa Tomei andMartin Scorsese. The series also will feature archives and footage from guest’s personal archives whenever possible.”
Laura Dern is “in talks to join Kristen Stewart in JT Leroy,” according to theHollywood Reporter‘s Ashley Lee. “Justin Kelly is directing from a script he wrote, based on the life rights of Savannah Knoop and her book Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy.” Knoop’s cover was blown in 2006 when Laura Albert was revealed as the actual author of LeRoy‘s books.
And from THR‘s Rebecca Ford we learn that Brie Larson “will play the first female presidential candidate in Victoria Woodhull.” Nominated for the country’s top job in 1872, Woodhull “was a women’s rights activist and suffragist who could not even vote for herself on Election Day (women were not able to vote until 1920). Woodhull also was a published author, creating the radical publication Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly in 1870 with her sister. She and her sister also started the first woman-run stock brokerage company.”
“Rodrigo Prieto, the esteemed cinematographer who has worked on films such as Martin Scorcese’s Silence and Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, is set to make his directorial debut with revenge thriller Bastard,” reports Deadline‘s Diana Lodderhose. “La La Land’s Jordan Horowitz is set to produce…. Bastard is a taut revenge thriller with a riveting antagonist at its core, set against a looming flood that will ravage the small town of Bird’s Point, Missouri.”
At IndieWire, Yoselin Acevedo passes along a rumor that Steven Soderbergh’sThe Knick may not return for a third season. Let’s hope it ain’t so.
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