Paul and Chris Weitz have proven two of the more deft comedy filmmakers in recent times. The directing brothers did both "American Pie" and "About a Boy", and now, minus his brother, Paul's latest film is the Dennis Quaid/Topher Grace laugher "In Good Company" which is already drawing rave reviews.
In an interview in Los Angeles with our correspondent this week, Weitz spoke briefly about what he's working on next:
"I'm writing a couple of things, one of which is, sort of, a very active satire of American Culture and the other of which is a film exploring the duality of faith and disbelief in American culture now, that one can sort of, perceive as being such a big part of the last election. It seems like there is this feeling whether it is true or not, that there is part of the country that believes but doesn't understand what the other part of the country does, and there's another part of the country that doesn't believe in, doesn't understand why on earth they feel the country is progressing. The night of the election, I locked cut on this ["In Good Company"] and saw the election result and came up with this idea, so I'm hoping that it is a good idea that will have legs. But that might be the next sort of windmill, until something happens in terms of getting a studio to fund it, a film they don't wan to fund"
As for his brother - "He is getting started on the epic task of directing Golden Compass. He has written, he's been working on the Phillip Coleman novels, which is a series of novels that he loves and that had a huge meaning for him in his life"
The full interview will be available next week.
Thanks to 'Paul F.'
