Where has Terry Zwigoff been all these years?
The reclusive filmmaker behind the acclaimed “Crumb,” “Ghost World” and “Bad Santa hasn’t directed a film since 2006’s “Art School Confidential,” which was the first film of his to get mixed reviews.
There was also the TV pilot “King’s Court,” which never got shot. He did direct a failed pilot in 2017, for Amazon, titled “Budding Prospects.” In between, he’s had numerous projects fall by the wayside — “Sassy” (co-written with Robert Crumb), an Elmore Leonard adaptation (“Maximum Bob”), the Nic Cage starring “Lost Melody", and “Edward Ford,” which would have starred Michael Shannon.
Zwigoff is now confirming, via The Cap Times, that the writers of “Bad Santa” have a new idea for a film he’d direct and that they are going to start pitching it to studios. I hope he gets it made. Zwigoff has only directed four films in the last 29 years, but he has a unique cinematic voice that deserves to be heard more often.