Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Fukunaga... In Space

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No offense to Mia Wasikowska who I thought was wonderful in Jane Eyre, but the fact that she was smooshed between Michael Fassbender and director Cary Fukunaga in every red carpet picture for that movie that I looked up was too much to bear, so I had to sloppily photo-shop her out. I needs my mens close! The Playlist has word on what Fukunaga, who's batting a big two-for-two with Eyre and Sin Nombre, might take on next and unsurprisingly he seems to want to keep up his rep for jumping into seemingly dissimilar genres:

"A reader recently tipped us to a tweet from May by screenwriter Jeff Vintar (”I, Robot,” the still unproduced script of “Y: The Last Man”) which said, “More good news as Cary Fukunaga is in talks to direct my script SPACELESS for producer Gore Verbinski and Universal-.” We did some digging and the project seems to be have been moving along quietly under the radar, and sources close to the project tell us that Fukunaga is indeed in talks for the film. It’s still early days and apparently no deal has been made in the two months since that tweet, but Fukunaga is definitely still eyeing the film.

If he takes it on, “Spaceless” will definitely serve as another big shift from Fukunaga. The high concept flick centers on a top assassin hunting a high-profile target in space who must figure out how much of his reality is an illusion and what really matters in life before he can complete the job. Certainly sound ambitious, and with a major studio and tentpole filmmaker like Verbinksi behind the project, it could potentially be Fukunaga’s jump to mainstream filmmaking."

If this is Fukunaga's next project, I have an idea of who he could get to star in it! Here are a couple of clues: They have worked together before, they are pictured together at the top of this post, and his name is Michael Fassbender. Can ya guess? (pic via)

1 comment:

RJ said...

Damn. There's a lot of good sounding Sci Fi in the pipeline. Gravity, Prometheus, this .... just hope we don't all get space movie-d out.