The Best News You'll Read Today

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It is coming at us from Twitch:

"Back in March Deadline broke news about a new, untitled project doing the rounds from director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman. At the time all that was known about the latest project from the duo behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation was that it was a political satire and that Megan Ellison's Annapurna Productions was coming on to back the project. Deadline described the story as "a satire about how world leaders gather to figure out all the seismic events that will take place in the worlds, from oil prices to wars that will be waged."

Things have been quiet since but Twitch has learned that Warner Brothers have now also come on board. Plot details remain sketchy but Joaquin Phoenix is attached to star and Vincent Landay to produce with a March 2012 start date eyed for production."

Joaquin Phoenix is currently shooting The Master with Paul Thomas Anderson directing, co-starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman. PSH you'll recall was in Charlie Kaufman's last film (as writer and director), the best-film-of-2008 Synechdoche New York. Therefore, if my math is correct here, beep boop beep beep boop (that's the sound of my math calculator), I will like Joaquin Phoenix in this film like I liked PSH in that film because Charlie Kaufman makes everything fucking rad. But Phoenix aside the good news here is just the fact that Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman have got a new movie being made. Rejoice!

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