The news arrives as “Spider-Noir” earned 11 Emmy nominations, making it Prime Video’s most-nominated show this year. The series has also earned strong audience and critical scores.
It gives me no pleasure to report that this is one of the worst films of Schrader’s career. Wooden acting, Jack Huston and Sofia Boutella are badly miscast, the script is dull, the photography is flat; nothing works.
The movie, due to release in 2027, is described as “a haunting Western thriller that follows a retired U.S. Marshal whose forty-year search for his wife’s killer leads him to an outlaw losing his memory.
Alongside Blanchett, the film features a wildly eclectic ensemble including Dave Bautista, Lily-Rose Depp, Riley Keough, Léa Seydoux, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Chris Pine
This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.
UPDATED: It turns out The Hot Mic’s Jeff Sneider had reported on this more than a year ago!
EARLIER: Ninja Thyberg impressed me with her 2020 directorial debut, “Pleasure,” and she’s now attached to direct a “Witches of Eastwick” remake for WB and Red Wagon Entertainment (via Daniel Richtman). Dana Fox (“The Lost City”) is writing the script. The original one, directed by George Miller, was about a trio of witches who become romantically involved with the devil.
His reasoning is simple: Cregger sees himself first and foremost as a writer, and he has little interest in shaping stories around the predetermined “data points” that come with established IP.