There’s plenty of reasons to be excited for where Jeff Nichols will venture to next. His sophomore film, Take Shelter is high up on our must see list for this upcoming Sundance Film Festvial edition and from what I gather, it’ll lyrically share some of the DNA we found in his debut film Shotgun Stories. I’m predicting that like in SS, we’ll have this innate knowledge that something bad will occur and I think this is where Nichols excels in, is in the delay of the wrath-like events and the not knowing when or how violence in all forms will take its course. In a recent emailer with IndieWIRE, Nichols a Little Rock, Arkansas native said he will next be working on a “script called MUD, which I plan to shoot next year with Sarah Green and Aaron Ryder producing. It takes place on the Mississippi River.”
Green is of course Terrence Malick’s producer on all of his last three films and Aaron Ryder who was an executive producer on Memento and Donnie Darko is currently producing Mark Tonderai’s directing debut, House at the End of the Street which features Jennifer Lawrence in a bloodbath role. You can bet that Michael Shannon might want to make it three for three with Nichols and his right-hand man in Cinematographer Adam Stone is probably already making boat trips up and down the Mississippi.
