A decade after their collaboration on the wonderfully weird and Oscar-winning “Rango,” director Gore Verbinski and cinematographer Roger Deakins are looking set to re-team for two more animated films.
Verbinski, who also helmed “The Ring” along with the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “A Cure for Wellness,” tells Collider this week that he’s working on the screenplays for two animated movies that he can’t really talk about. However, he did confirm neither is a western, and one is a musical.
He also cautions they are a long way off: “These are so many years out. They take so long that I just… I mean, it’s way too early to talk about them.” Asked if Deakins would be involved he says:
“He was like my first call on these two animated movies I’m making now. I was like, ‘Roger, are you in?’ So one of them I’ve pitched him in detail, so he’s going to be coming back and helping us out… really in the shot production of it. He’s busy. He’s very busy.”
Deakins of course is arguably the most in-demand cinematographer currently working. The “Skyfall,” “The Assassination of Jesse James” and “Blade Runner 2049” lenser most recently worked on “1917”.
Source: Collider
