Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Writer(s): Walter Campbell
Producer(s): Nick Wechsler and James Wilson
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Scarlett Johansson
Re-shoots delayed this from being a 2012 release,...
Like just about everyone else we were huge on Sexy Beast back in Y2K and we thought his follow-up film, Birth was a well-intentioned misfire, so you could say it was a long eight year wait for Jonathan Glazer's third film. We were skeptical at first about this project, but then we're reminded of the video helmer/commercials' director skill at creating moody atmospherics and is a whiz with the camera. Sexual identity and humanity are major themes of this sci-fi book to film adaptation.
At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October 2011, we are keeping tabs on a five projects including an Arnold Schwarzenegger, 30 million dollar action project which we would normally never include on such a list. Last Stand has I Saw the Devil's Kim Jee-woon directing which means this could be bad-ass in terms of tone and style.
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.