According to Daniel Richtman, Oscar Isaac has been offered the male lead in David Robert Mitchell’s dinosaur movie set in the '80s starring Anne Hathaway called “Flowervale St.”
Mitchell is coming off 2018’s “Under the Silver Lake,” an unfairly maligned film that I saw at Cannes and then it just disappeared.
Back in 2020, MGM announced they had picked up Mitchell’s script, “Heroes and Villains.” This was said to be a “genre-bending” take on superheroes that Mitchell would direct for the studio.
Since then, almost three years later, there’s been total silence on the film. A lot has changed since then, most notably MGM being bought by Amazon. Has the project been scrapped? I had reached out to Amazon for comment, but no reply.
As mentioned, Mitchell’s next film will be a dinosaur movie set in the '80s. Bad Robot and Warner Bros. are set to produce. Hathaway and Isaac as the leads is promising.
Mitchell jumping into the world of dinosaurs is a weird proposition. He’s one of the most promising young directors out there. “It Follows” was a Cannes-championed movie that was one of the best offerings of the horror genre in ages.
A passionate cult following has ensued for “Under the Silver Lake,” with even the creation of a popular subreddit group still trying to figure out the film’s mysteries almost five years since its release. It was a fascinating exercise in atmosphere and tension, and Mitchell is one of the few directors out there who can capture what dreams really feel like.
The initial release for "Under the Silver Lake," had been postponed for a year after the negative reviews greeted it at Cannes. Mitchell is a rule-breaking filmmaker, and his work in that film shouldn’t have been shrugged off the way it did.
Paul Greengrass’ "The Uprising," starring Andrew Garfield, opened to $3.2M from 2,068 theaters this weekend. Yikes. The budget hasn’t been disclosed, but is said to be in the $20-$30M range.