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Herzog asks ‘What Have Ye Done’ with Shannon, Dafoe and Sevigny

I’m not sure if David Lynch was waiting for the perfect role to once again work with his Wild at Heart star Willem Dafoe, now he can do so has one of the producers on his special collaboration with Werner Herzog on the oddly titled My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done.

Eric Lavallée

Published on February 7, 2009

I’m not sure if David Lynch was waiting for the perfect role to once again work with his Wild at Heart star Willem Dafoe, now he can do so has one of the producers on his special collaboration with Werner Herzog on the oddly titled My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Alongside we can see the seasoned actor play alongside the likes of Michael Shannon, Chloe Sevigny, Lynch regular Grace Zabriskie and enigmatic Udo Kier.

The psychological horror is loosely based on events surrounding a San Diego man who acted out a Sophocles play in his mind and murdered his mother with a sword. Filming begins next month in the California locale of Coronado Island in March.

Eric Bassett is producing and Lynch serves as executive producer.

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Eric Lavallée

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).