Fans of the annual Blacklist will notice top tier items from 2008 in Oranges (#2) and Butter (#3) are going into production. Butter still has some casting work before setting up shop in Louisana. The state will also be the host to the next Duplass comedy entitled, Jeff Who Lives at Home.
Andrea Arnold, from Fish Tank, Red Road and Wasp fame, will be hitting Wuthering Heights next, but she might be following that up with another original piece called The Cleaner. Peter Strickland (see pic above) who made waves last year with his film Katalin Varga, will be going to Italy for his next project - a horror film called who is developing The Berberian Sound Studio.
How Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank was left on the table for this long is incomprehensible. Sure its a bit rough around the edges, but this contains perhaps the most memorable debut performance from an actress this year (Kate Jarvis) and Arnold with her sophomore feature proves she is neither a flash in a pan, or a "fish" out of the water.
I'm extremely curious to see how a touchy concept might play out on the big screen. The film with the narration I'm most looking forward to seeing. Heavenly Creatures anyone?
He captured the last days of Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis with his screenwork for Control and now his script based on the early days of John Lennon tops the 2nd annual Brit List which sorts the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland.