Moore ‘Happy’ to Board Two Indie Projects

Demi Moore is getting ‘stripped’ of her inhibitions for two very different upcoming indie projects, showing sides of herself we actually haven’t seen. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the sexy starlet, who was most recently seen as Det. Tracy Atwood opposite Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks, is on board to star in Mitchell Lichtenstein’s next project, Happy Tears. The family drama also stars indie veteran Parker Posey. Written and directed by Lichtenstein, Posey will play Moore’s sister who returns to their Wisconsin home to find Moore fed up with tending to their dementia-stricken, hateful father. This is Lichtenstein’s second feature, recently having made quite a splash with his feature debut Teeth, the jaw-dropping, comedic horror flick about a chaste, high school girl’s ferocious you-know-what. 

Next in line for Moore is Guy Moshe’s martial arts pic Bunraku, also starring Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson. Moshe who last took on the slave trade tragi-course with Holly, will take a Gondry-esque style, the film mixes a variety of media, such as origami, comic books, video games and giant puppets (the title is derived from a 400-year old form of Japanese puppet theater).   Hartnett will play a man who sets off on a revenge quest, with Moore as a concubine who is forced into marrying her warlord captor. Harrelson will be returning to his ‘Cheers’ roots, playing a bartender.

Tears begins shooting in Philadelphia later this month. Bunraku is scheduled to be filmed in Europe.