Several major filmmakers have just setup new features stretching from music docos to sci-fi action thrillers.
First, Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary for Showtime about New York Dolls lead singer David Johansen. The doco will chronicle Johansen’s shifting career, from his childhood and beyond as head of punk/glam pioneers the New York Dolls in the 1970s, swing revivalists Buster Poindexter in the 1980s, and blues band the Harry Smiths in the 1990s.
Next, Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty,” “The Young Pope,” “Loro”) has been set to write and direct “The Hand Of God” for Netflix and The Apartment Pictures. Plot specifics are under wraps, but the story is based on an original idea by the director and the team are promising ‘a personal film’ taking Sorrentino back to his hometown of Naples where it will shoot. Lorenzo Mieli will produce.
Finally, Jeremy Rush (“Wheelman”) has been set to direct contained space thriller “Retrograde” for Mandalay Pictures and Juniper Productions. Mark Mazur penned the screenplay for the film set after a nuclear war has erupted between the U.S. and Russia. The action follows six astronauts aboard the International Space Station who are ordered to seize control of the facility from their foreign colleagues by any means necessary.
Source: Deadline
