Shotgun Stories announced the arrival of filmmaker with a command for story, in full control of the temperature and reminded us of others that work with the elements such as his producer David Gordon Green and mentors such as Terrence Malick. We expect plenty of flavor with this film (big studio effects pepper this distinctly indie feature and I'm especially excited about the prospects of Jeff Nichols teaming up with Michael Shannon once again.
Who has time for low budget indie films when you're being offered lead parts in the latest for Terrence Malick's latest project, Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea and will reteam with Fernando Meirelles on 360. This happens to be the case for Rachel Weisz, who is forced to vacate from the Seattle indie, but in her place we find perhaps a better casting choice in Rosemarie DeWitt.
For the remainder of the 2010 film year, you might have a trio of possibilities to see actress Jessica Chastain in action. There's the Terrence Malick film that the the whole world is waiting for, there's John Madden's The Debt (a late December release) and finally, eOne has saved Dan Ireland’s Jolene from obscurity.
While there are no mentions of Terrence Malick, Variety are confirming the obvious in Aronofsky's Black Swan, Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Corbijn's The American, Schnabel's Miral, Coppola's Somewhere, Kechiche's Black Venus, Ozon's Potiche, Tykwer's Three and Cordier's Happy Few all making it to the Lido this year, but they've added a couple more brow lifters that I'll delve into below.
There are three groups of people that are staying away from Paul Thomas Anderson's next film: a.) Companies afraid to fund a project that can potentially lean to the left, b.) Hollywood players who prefer being on good terms with Tom Cruise, C.) and production companies without deep enough pockets for an auteur film of this stature. Everyone else can apply. While this project won't find a partner in Universal (did they not like the experience funding an auteur film in Basterds?), there is word that the River Road (who backed Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life) are the only ones with the balls or the deep pockets to finance such a project.