In an interview with New York Magazine, Paul Schrader let it slip that he’s about to shoot a new film in the coming months.
The film is said to be an adaptation of one of the last novels by his friend Russell Banks. He plans to shoot it this summer with Richard Gere in the lead role.
Banks, who died in 2023, has only written two novels in the last decade, Foregone (2021) and The Magic Kingdom (2022). I’ve sent a few emails out, hopefully I’ll get an answer.
EDIT: I’m being told Schrader isn’t adapting either work. Rather, the film will be about a tormented writer on the verge of death. Could this be Schrader’s final film?
Schrader had mentioned during a Q&A at the New York Film Festival that he was also working on a project that had to do with a “trauma nurse working in Puerto Rico.” The Banks adaptation doesn’t seem to be this one.
In fact, this next film will probably not be a part of his recent Bresson-inspired trilogy composed of “First Reformed,” “The Card Counter,” and “Master Gardener.” The nurse film was supposed to turn it into a tetralogy, as he mentioned.
In the same New York Magazine interview, Schrader also mentions that he’s trying to get Antoine Fuqua to direct a screenplay he wrote, titled “Three Guns at Dawn”. It follows three brothers — a dirty cop, a serial killer, and a drug dealer — who hate one another.
If you remember, Schrader was a big fan of Fuqua’s recent Will Smith slavery drama, “Emancipation.” No surprise he now wants Fuqua to adapt one of his writings.