Dominic Murphy, the uber-talented filmmaker who blasted onto the scene with the Sundance/Berlin debut feature film White Lightnin’, a pic I’m sure a very small percentage of our readers have seen, will next direct another relationship-themed film in Cassandra at the Wedding. Based on the 1962 novel by Dorothy Baker, this will likely be Bruno Heller’s first credit for a feature film screenplay – so far, he wrote for television’s Rome and The Mentalist. Sam Taylor who produced White Lightin’ and more recently Donkey, Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre and a cool sounding doc Street Kids United pitched the project to the filmmaker. Variety reports that filming is scheduled for April of next year in Wales and New Zealand.
Gist: Film centers on 26-year-old Cassandra, whose life gets turned upside down when she finds out her identical twin, Jude, is about to drop out of college and get married with a New Zealand man she’s just met three months ago. For more go to our preview page.
Worth Noting: Murphy comes from a commercials background – here are some of his spots. He is attached to sci-fi project A Gift From the Culture.
Do We Care?: Though I thought the the film wasn’t even throughout, White Lightnin’ was one of the more visceral cinema-going experiences of 2009 and sort of like Steve McQueen-like entry, it announced the arrival of a new talent. I’m curious in seeing how he’ll visually treat what is less of a “chaotic” vehicle.
