I’m not a morning person and I can assure you it takes plenty of impetus to jump-start one’s self for a mid festival screening slotted for 8:30 a.m. I knew going in that Sin Nombre (Cary Joji Fukunaga‘s debut film) was worth the “extra” effort.
I think he was the only first time filmmaker who didn’t have to worry about making a sales deal at Sundance since he had the fortune of making his debut film with some studio backing, and now that same studio is looking to tie up the young filmmaker (and recent Sundance prize winner for directing) for a pair of projects. Focus Features will get first dibs on the filmmaker make him write a project that will be nothing close to Sin Nombre, and then the parent company (Universal) will have Fukunaga embark on another project. Amy Kaufman who has been backing Fukunaga since his short film days will produce.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Fukunaga also had written an adaptation of Beasts of No Nation – a novel about a child soldier in an unnamed African civil war.
