Some great auteurs have all set up new directorial efforts which have been revealed in the past day or so.
First up, “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos and co-writer Tony McNamara are in talks to re-team for the film adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s 1974 Gothic Western novel “The Hawkline Monster” at New Regency. The story follows two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in ice caves under the basement of a house inhabited by a young woman named Miss Hawkline.
Second, a new Film Stage report indicates that “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” helmer Park Chan-Wook’s next film will be a melodrama starring Park Hae-il and Tang Wei. The translated title is “The Decision to Break Up” and it is said to draw from Park’s darker sensibilities. Shooting begins this Fall.
Next, “Wall-E” and “John Carter” helmer Andrew Stanton is in talks to direct “Chairman Spaceman” for Searchlight Pictures and Genre Films. The story is based on a 2017 New Yorker fiction story by Thomas Pierce about an infamous corporate raider who renounces his worldly wealth to become an interplanetary missionary.
“Toy Story 4” helmer Josh Cooley is set to write and make his live-action directorial debut on the adaptation of children’s author Thomas Taylor’s “Malamander” at Sony Pictures. The story unfolds in a seaside town where a young boy serving as the hotel’s lost-and-found director teams up with a young girl looking for parents she lost as a baby. They set off on an adventure that involves a half-man, half-monster who is said to make dreams come true and a hook-handed man pursuing them.
Next, “Tigers Are Not Afraid” helmer Issa Lopez is set to write and direct “Our Lady of Tears” for Blumhouse. The film is based on a recent article about a mass hysteria epidemic that spread through a strict all-girls Catholic boarding school on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Finally, “Under the Silver Lake” and “It Follows” helmer David Robert Mitchell has penned and will direct “Heroes & Villains,” a genre-bending feature dubbed a “new take on superheroes” setup at MGM. Mitchell has been working on his spin on the genre for some time and casting will begin soon.
Sources: Heat Vision.
