She has been attached to several new projects since You Were Never Really Here was released and we’ve got a massive update thanks to the Screen Daily folks covering Doha Film Institute’s Qumra Event. The first film out of the gate for Lynne Ramsay will be the adaptation of a short story from Atwood’s 2014 collection of the same name which is “about a woman (Julianne Moore) who goes on a cruise in a frozen region and encounters a man who raped her 50 years ago. “It’s such a challenge, that film because it’s a boat in the Arctic – it [needs] all the elements aligning.” Here is what we have:
Stone Mattress
Source: 2014 short fiction collection by Margaret Atwood
Status: Production is set for “later this year”
Likely Year of Release: 2024
Polaris
Source: Original Script.
Status: Depends on if and when Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are available at the same time.
Possible Year of Release: 2025-2026
Die, My Love
Source: Ariana Harwicz novel.
Status: Writing phase.
Possible Year of Release: 2026
Moby Dick
Source: Herman Melville novel.
Status: Project is “not dead”. Budget is a concern.
Possible Year of Release: 2028
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
