New Films in Production, v.2

[thirtyframesasecond]

Elizabeth Banks directed a thriller called Cocaine Bear, inspired by true events that took place in 1985 Kentucky, during which a 175-pound black bear ingested 88 pounds of pure cocaine and went on a murderous rampage. A star-studded cast includes Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., and the late Ray Liotta

OK, that sounds a lot more interesting than Pitch Perfect 2.

[yoloswegmaster]

Robert Eggers looks to finally start to work on Nosferatu, with Bill Skarsgard and Lily-Rose Depp to star.

[yoloswegmaster]

John Waters to return to film making by directing an adaptation of his novel Liarmouth.

[Forrest Taft]

John McTiernan is back

This seems to be back on track, though the title has changed to Tau Ceti Foxtrot. The source is a Twitter user, who revealed that he also has a paranormal thriller called Ghost in the Machine in the works. All of his films were made in a span of 17 years, and it's now been 19 years since his last film. Would be cool if he'd get to make two movies back-to-back.

[yoloswegmaster]

Adam Sandler confirmed he's reteaming with the Safdie brothers on a new project, giving no details other than "it's different" (presumably in reference to the tone of their last two cinematic heart-attacks)

This is going to start shooting in the late winter.

[cantinflas]

A Haunting in Venice

[therewillbeblus]

Liam Neeson to star in new Naked Gun movie. I guess that’s one way to replace Leslie Nielsen..

[domino harvey]

Same basic idea: hire “serious” actor to be straight faced silly. Plus he already did that in A Million Ways to Die in the West

[hearthesilence]

No, what happened was no one told them Leslie Nielsen was dead, so when they tried reaching out to him they got Liam Neeson, and by the time they figured it out the contracts were already signed.

[swo17]

Relatedly, I read that Gillian Anderson may end up in the Community movie because Joel McHale tagged the wrong Gillian in a social media post

[therewillbeblus]

Same basic idea: hire “serious” actor to be straight faced silly. Plus he already did that in A Million Ways to Die in the West

I always think of this as the best example of Neeson doing it

[yoloswegmaster]

Netflix is the home for the new Safdies/Sandler film. It's also said to likely be set in the world of "high-end card collecting".

[DarkImbecile]

Pablo Larrain and Steven Knight to reteam on Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas

[colinr0380]

Netflix is the home for the new Safdies/Sandler film. It's also said to likely be set in the world of "high-end card collecting".

Sounds as if it could be an unofficial Logan Paul biopic.

[yoloswegmaster]

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara will star in Pawel Pawlikowski’s next feature, which is tentatively titled “The Island.”

[yoloswegmaster]

Take this with a grain of salt since it is coming from Jordan Ruimy but Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Stone Matress’, starring Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh, is set to start shooting in December.

[thirtyframesasecond]

Neeson is terrific in Life's Too Short, from forgetting who Warwick Davis is to his gradual worsening of the doctor's joke. Should add though that Gervais used the same kind of punchline in an episode of The Office (the training episode).

[Calvin]

Nils Malmros is coming out of retirement to direct a film based on a newly discovered manuscript by Faroese writer Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, who wrote the novel Barbara that he previously adapted

[Randall Maysin Again]

Old news (2017) but this seems to have flown very much under the world's radar: John MacNaughton, whoever that is, is involved in making a film of Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find":
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/343 ... hard-find/

imdb says it's in pre-production, five years later. It's apparently scripted by one half of the same duo of brothers who wrote Wise Blood for John Huston, Benedict Fitzgerald. I think the Fitzgerald family is very involved with the O'Connor estate, or something. It's my favorite Flannery story, and it could make an amazing film! Though given the movie undustry's track record with canonized Great Literature, I'm only very cautiously optimistic. Wise Blood is, on the other hand, easily the worst work I've seen from her, to the point where for me there's no point in filming it at all.

[The Narrator Returns]

Todd Haynes is currently shooting May December, a drama with Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. It'll be his first movie without Ed Lachman since Velvet Goldmine (Lachman was set to do it but he broke his hip shortly before production started), with Christopher Blauvelt taking Lachman's place.

[therewillbeblus]

Spielberg is attached to direct an original story starring the character Frank Bullitt.

Bradley Cooper is now apparently our generation's Steve McQueen

[knives]

Checks out. Does that make Alias our generation’s Wanted Dead or Alive?

[ryannichols7]

Ang Lee is returning to Mandarin and is scouting in Malaysia for locations. I personally think Lee needs a comeback big time - he has such potential and has made some seriously great films. and The Ice Storm aside, the best ones are his mandarin works.

since the article discusses Lee potentially getting the wonderful dish Bak Kut Teh in Malaysia, I will take this opportunity to remind everyone he's a massive foodie and this is one of the best pictures of all time

[The Narrator Returns]

I don't know if this is what he was scouting for, but Ang Lee will direct his son Mason in a biopic of Bruce Lee.

[DarkImbecile]

Nikyatu Jusu will be directing a direct sequel to Night of the Living Dead