Following the success of “The Brutalist” last year, filmmaker Brady Corbet confirmed that his next film would be a 1970s horror-western project with a ‘looser style’ than his prior movies, such as “Vox Lux” and “The Childhood of a Leader”.
Corbet indicated that he had watched Tobe Hooper’s original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and felt inspired to write the new film. It is one involving a story spanning 150 years, although it is primarily set in the 1970s.
Now, in an interview with Sleek, he indicates the film looks likely to have a runtime akin to the bladder-busting 215-minute runtime of “The Brutalist”:
“To make a film yours, you have to be absolutely uncompromising about certain pillars of the project. You’ll walk away if those pillars aren’t erected and maintained. For example, the length of ‘The Brutalist’ – and also for my next project – time is a crucial ingredient. These are melodramas, and if you compress them into two hours to satisfy a studio, the experience becomes implausible.”
While “The Brutalist” dealt with the immigration experience of Eastern Europeans to the US after World War Two, the new film will reportedly deal with Chinese immigration into California. With the 150-year time span he suggests, it could easily refer to anything from the Gold Rush era and establishment of Chinatowns, to the Exclusion Era, to the more modern experience.
The new film is expected to be a “large format film” shot on eight-perf 65mm cameras and aims to begin filming in the first quarter of next year, continuing through to the Summer.
Source: World of Reel
