New Films in Production, v.2

[JakeB]

5 years after his brilliant film 'Das merkwürdige Kätzchen' premiered at Berlin Film Fest, Ramon Zürcher has a new project in the works!

When I saw Das merkwürdige Kätzchen at Leeds International Film Festival in 2013, I was so intrigued by it, I changed my schedule to see it a second time. I've kept tabs on the film maker ever since. Glad to finally hear some news from him.

[domino harvey]

Hazanavicius' next film will be a family fantasy starring Omar Sy and, who else, Berenice Bejo

[Cremildo]

Ulysses S. Grant biopic directed by Spielberg, starring DiCaprio

[flyonthewall2983]

It's trivial but Spielberg doing something for Lionsgate just does not compute.

[Ribs]

This is literally the third Presidential biopic DiCaprio's been attached to in the past five years, along with Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, and neither of those seem like they're going anywhere.

Also Jared Harris was good as Grant in Lincoln! Obviously he's no DiCaprio-level star but wouldn't have minded to see that performance given its own movie.

[Big Ben]

Zack Snyder is making a new adaptation of The Fountainhead.

I can't stop laughing. Is he going to do a slow motion sequence where wealthy people mock the poor? I'm in fucking awe of this.

[DarkImbecile]

Bong Joon-ho's new film Parasite has started filming, and will be his first Korean-language film since Mother

[Werewolf by Night]

I hope this means his Tilda Swinton period is over. I am a big fan of the work of both, just not together. I felt like they brought out the worst tendencies in each other.

[Never Cursed]

Director Corin Hardy and star Jason Momoa leave remake of The Crow five weeks before principal photography was set to begin

[Feego]

Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron will lead the voice cast of a new animated Addams Family movie. Honestly, I think it's a missed opportunity to not feature those two in full costume in a live-action version.

[domino harvey]

Armando Iannucci's next film will be a "modern" period adaptation of David Copperfield starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, and Peter Capaldi

[DarkImbecile]

Sam Mendes to co-write and direct (and Spielberg to produce) 1917, a $100 million World War I drama slated for a holiday 2019 release.

[cantinflas]

Legendary is making a live-action Gundam movie

[flyonthewall2983]

Neill Blomkamp directing next RoboCop movie

[flyonthewall2983]

Jonathan Glazer's next film will be about the Holocaust, set in Auschwitz

The director said he remembers, as a child, looking at pictures from World War II, and being horrified by specific imagery. “I remember being very taken by the faces of the bystanders, the onlookers, the complicit, you know? Ordinary Germans,” he said.

“I started wondering how it would be possible to stand by and watch that. Some of the faces actually enjoy it. The spectacle of it. The kinda circus of it,” he continued.

[domino harvey]

Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, and Woody Harrelson have signed on for Zombieland 2... but why though

[Omensetter]

Relatedly, Jarmusch's next film concerns zombies.

I thought our culture was done with zombies/zombie apocalypse as a means of coping with, uh, actual apocalypse, but it seems enough of a sell for Jarmusch to snag funding. I imagine it will be as much a zombie film as Only Lovers Left Alive was a vampire film.

[domino harvey]

Alexa, tell me about a movie I never want to see

[Michael Kerpan]

Alexa, tell me about a movie I never want to see

Long ago, when our family was on vacation -- in a location with limited TV choices -- a broadcast of this "musical" came on. After listening/watching for about for about 5 minutes, all our children begged us to turn the TV off (they had no idea what it was -- and I had never proselytized against ALW).

[Murdoch]

Shirley Jackson's The Lottery is being turned into a film. Unfortunately it's being written by Jake Wade Wall, whose most notable films are the mid-noughties remakes of The Hitcher and When a Stranger Calls...

[mfunk9786]

What ever happened to that We Have Always Lived in the Castle adaptation? Looks like it was shot 2 years ago, is it just shelved?

[Murdoch]

I'm not sure either. All I could find is a Deadline article vaguely referencing it as coming soon.

[Dylan]

The Primevals, a low budget Harryhausen-style adventure film that has remained in post-production for nearly twenty years due to the death of its writer/director/animator Dave Allen in 1999, is back in production and will be finished next year.

[flyonthewall2983]

The true story of how a crooked cop rigged the McDonalds Monopoly game that was recently published in The Daily Beast, has since been courted by several major studios. Now it appears that Fox will win out, with Ben Affleck attached to direct and Matt Damon to star.

[DarkImbecile]

Tony Kaye (!) wants to cast an AI robot in his next feature (!!), and wants to get the robot SAG membership (!!!)