Writer-Director Todd Field hasn’t made a film since “Little Children” (2006) and, before that, his incendiary debut “In the Bedroom” (2001). Whatever happened to him since 2006 is a mystery to me. Both films garnered eight Oscar nominations in total, the former actor was heralded as a major new voice and then, poof, he was gone.
Regardless, Cate Blanchett is set to team up with Field for the filmmaker’s next picture. She’ll star in “TAR,” a drama that Field wrote and will direct. The plot is currently being kept under wraps, but today someone spilled the beans via a casting call:
“The intellectual drama tells the story of world-renowned Musician Lydia Tár, who is just days away from recording the symphony that will take her to the very heights of her already formidable career. Lydia Tár’s remarkably bright and charming six-year-old adopted daughter Petra has a key role to play here. And when elements seem to conspire against Lydia, the young girl is an important emotional support for her struggling mother.”
So, what exactly happened to Field since “Little Children”? We’re not entirely sure, but something serious enough to make him inactive for a whopping 15 years. Either he was blackballed in the industry, for some reason, or, more realistically, he just had his projects falling by the wayside due to the changing dynamics of the studio system.
Still no distributor for "Bucking Fastard," "Alpha Gang," "The Last Photograph," "Closing Night," and "The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd." The issue seems to be quality more than a lack of willingness to buy.