Spend a little time in any film-related academic setting, and Atom Egoyan‘s name is sure to come up. The Candadian-Armenian helmer has been praised in academia circles for his the intertexualities (and often inter- sexualities) since his 1989 feature, Speaking Parts, in which acting is confused with reality and fantasy is confused with love. Egoyan has since made more noise with The Sweet Hereafter, which was nominated for two Oscars in 1998, and Where the Truth Lies, starring Keven Bacon and Colin Firth, which placed the director in the Hollywood scene. Again and again the topic of technology pops up in Egoyan’s films (as seen in his most recent feature, Adoration), another reason why present-day professors are in love with this helmer. And now, according to THR, he will return to that topic as writer and director of his next feature, Seven Wonders, giving professors something to get their bowties in a tangle about.
The pic tells the story of a woman who becomes consumed in a relationship with a director and the director’s boyfriend, following the director across the world as she shoots commercials at each of the Seven Wonders. The two women initially meet online, an occurence Egoyan uses to suggest that perhaps their relationship isn’t entirely a reality.
The project will be produced through Ego Film Arts, the helmer’s company based in Toronto. THR states that although it is set up at Universal, the pic is likely to move on as an indie feature.
This summer, Egoyan will direct “Eh Joe,” based on a Samuel Beckett play, at the Lincoln Center.
