Mumblecore offering Humpday officially put its director on the map – I wonder out loud how world sales went for the film as it was profiled in Cannes as well. Regardless, Lynn Shelton secured her independent filmmaker career in the U.S. and a small blurb mentioned on IndieWIRE confirms she is headed in that direction. Among the projects in the Shelton’s pipeline, we find a project with Sherman Alexie, and now you can add Joshua Ferris’ recent novel Then We Came To An End for Anne Carey and Ted Hope’s This is That Productions (their upcoming slate includes James Gunn’s Super and Anton Corbijn’s The American).
Playing on Shelton’s strength (capturing human-beings jousting between themselves), the book to film adaptation would probably be dialogue friendly and much like Humpday, will spend a lot of time in one location – I imagine the water cooler for this one.
The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. This takes place in a Chicago advertising agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the 1990s Internet boom.
