Duncan Jones Says He May Try To Make His Passion Project ‘Mute’ After ‘Warcraft’
Duncan Jones, the filmmaker behind the underrated sci-fi pic “Moon,” “Source Code,” and the upcoming adaptation of the “World Of Warcraft” video game (now just titled “Warcraft”), has one too. Following the Sundance success of “Moon,” Jones tried to mount a “Blade Runner”-ish sci-fi project set in Berlin called “Mute.” But the movie, at the end of the day, was really more of a thriller and mystery in a Hitchock-ian vein with a futuristic milieu to it (the script leaked online ages ago). The story centered on a mute bartender who took to the streets and clashed with the city’s gangsters while searching for his kidnapped girlfriend (it was also said it would inhabit the same universe from “Moon” with a possible cameo from Sam Rockwell).
Of course, because the lead character couldn’t utter a word, other than writing things down, financiers eventually shied away from the movie because even a big star (which the film would most certainly need) wouldn’t be speaking in the movie. Jones has considered the movie every step of the way, but has described it as “being in limbo” often. In fact, one of the last major updates on the film in early 2011 was that Jones was considering making it a graphic novel first (an idea that helped Darren Aronofsky’s “The Fountain” and “Noah” get made) or even an animated cartoon.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... t-20140716Thinking about what film I want to try and do after Warcraft. May give Mute one more push before I put it on the "Don Quixote" shelf.
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon)