Location: 'Taked baby. Meet at later bar, night or day sometime
Bacon wrote:So is this coming before or after the two other projects he's set to direct?
nolannolanchrischris wrote:
The first social media reviews around the world on Blade Runner 2049 are calling the film a sci-fi masterpiece. Now, its director Denis Villenueve is in discussions for one of Sony Pictures’ highest profile pictures. Deadline hears that Villenueve will re-develop to direct Cleopatra, the epic female empowerment story of one of history’s most complex heroines. Based on the bestselling Stacy Schiff biography that is being produced by Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal, Cleopatra has seen the biggest filmmakers names circle this one, including James Cameron, Paul Greengrass, and David Fincher. Now, it’s Villenueve who has sparked to the challenge and in a week he might be the hottest guy out there.
That filmmaker has quickly catapulted to the top of the A-list after directing Prisoners, Sicario and Arrival and then taking the Blade Runner baton from Ridley Scott. He has also been one of the three director names on the short list to direct the next James Bond film, along with ’71 and White Boy Rick director Yann Demange and David Mackenzie, the Hell or High Water director now filming Outlaw King, the story of rebellious Scottish king Robert the Bruce, for Netflix. Villenueve is also developing a new version of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune for Legendary Entertainment. The expectation is 007 isn’t in the cards, and that he can work on Cleopatra while directing Dune.
Sony has a script that David Scarpa, Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland have all worked on. Angelina Jolie has long been eyed to play the Egyptian queen, but it is unclear whether that still will happen.
Fuck, he needs to make The Son. Read that book this summer. It's great, mostly because I imagined the protagonist as Jake Gyllenhaal and the detective as Josh Brolin.
I know, I know, but don't worry Avatar 2 isn't coming out for 3 more years. Then he's doing Avatar 3 right after that, so there's only gonna be one year of Avatar craziness.
(Not including hype for the 20 disc 4-D blu-ray box set a year later)
