Word around the campfire is that Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” won’t be ready for the September festivals and that a possible world premiere at NYFF is becoming more and more of a possibility.
Baumbach’s film is said to be his most formally audacious and ambitious endeavour yet. It is said to have numerous surreal set-pieces and an assortment of ambitious long takes. If you believed the intel of a chaotic production and gruelling post-production then the news that it’s skipping September fests might not be so surprising.
“White Noise” is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s shocking, aggravating, brilliant, mysterious novel of the same name. Never, not once, did it cross my mind while reading novel that it should be adapted into a movie. It honestly reads like something that would be unfilmable and non-cinematic, but consider me very excited by the prospect of Baumbach turning it into a film. It’s a total risk.
The film is up there with our most-anticipated fall titles, but it’s starting to look as though all the major auteurs are skipping Venice, Toronto and Tellurude. Is this going to be the new normal? Scorsese, Spielberg, Fincher, Chazelle, Del Toro, Russell and Baumbach …
That leaves us with what exactly for Venice/Telluride/Toronto? Inarritu, Dominik, Aronofsky, Field, Polley, Schrader, Guadagnino, and McDonagh. Not the sharpest lineup, but definitely room for some surprises to spring up.
I’ll be skipping Venice and Telluride this year. I figure I’ll get a chance to see everything in Toronto.
The film had actually wrapped its six-month production in January 2026, and it’s been in post-production for the last eight months. Fincher is well known for taking his time in the editing room.