Very happy with this. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will result in Palcy getting any other offers from Hollywood, as Charles Burnett and Haile Gerima haven’t gotten new projects off the ground since they received their awards.
It’s been over a decade since Peter Weir made a film. The last project he was publicly attached to, Shantaram, was subsequently given to Mira Nair before eventually becoming an Apple+ series.
Shantaram was supposed to be his follow-up to Master and Commander. He left in 2006 and eventually did The Way Back instead. He was also working on adapting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition around the same time. The last project I can find any mention of is an adaptation of Jennifer Egan's The Keep that was announced as a Spring 2013 shoot.
The Fanciful Norwegian wrote: Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:40 pmShantaram was supposed to be his follow-up to Master and Commander. He left in 2006 and eventually did The Way Back instead. He was also working on adapting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition around the same time. The last project I can find any mention of is an adaptation of Jennifer Egan's The Keep that was announced as a Spring 2013 shoot.
I forgot about Pattern Recognition. I recall that around 1993 that he was adapting Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, which is about the early days of the Australian penal colony. That could have been terrific in his hands
1. Pacification (Albert Serra)
2. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Nope (Jordan Peele)
4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
6. Bowling Saturne (Patricia Mazuy)
7. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater)
8. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
9. Viens Je T'emmène (Alain Guiraudie)
10. Who's Stopping Us (Jonás Trueba)
Glad to see Dinner in America get some love, and I guess it's time to return to Ozon after the safe and vapid Summer of '85 forced a break- these two sound fun
I actually think RRR is being highly slept on as a possible Oscar nominee in a few categories. I actually don't think Gold Derby has it in the running for anything, last I checked
MOVIES OF THE YEAR:
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
ELVIS
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
THE FABELMANS
NOPE
SHE SAID
TÁR
TOP GUN: MAVERICK
THE WOMAN KING
WOMEN TALKING
I truly think that Top Gun is taking home the Oscar for Best Picture. They want a zeitgeist-capturing film to bring in high ratings, and it signified the continued viability of theatrical exhibition in the COVID era