Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #47. Juan Solanas’ Upside Down

#47. Upside Down

Director: Juan Solanas
Writer(s): Santiago Amigorena and Solanas

Producers: Claude Léger, Dimitri Rassam, Aton Soumache, Jonathan Vanger and Alexis Vonarb
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: Adam (Sturgess) is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach… a girl named Eve (Dunst)...(more)

Cast: Jim Sturgess toplines supported by Kirsten Dunst.

List Worthy Reasons…: I’ll reiterate what I mentioned same time last year (#53 in 2011) : filmmaking is in his blood, his debut film was a Cannes invite, the short film (The Man Without a Head) I have seen of his is stellar and while I have an aversion to sci-fi/time travel related romances, if the chemistry between Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess works, this might break out of the so-called “mold” that I dislike.

Release Date/Status?: With test screenings out of the way, we think that there might be a return trip to Cannes for Dunst. What section of the festival? Good question. With a price tag of north of 60 million and with several territories up for grabs, a North American release will depend on size and scope of the film and this could possibly go to a major studio who’ll want a world release date.