Brady Corbet Says His Next Film Spans 150 Years & Tackles “American Mysticism"

Here’s more Brady Corbet news.

A few months ago, Corbet mentioned that he was working on his next film, a ‘70s set horror-western that will have a “looser style,” but will once again tackle the immigration process, this time from China to California. He was inspired to write it after watching “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

In a recent interview on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast, Corbet shares a few brief details, including the subject matter, which mainly takes place in the ‘70s, but also spans 150 years.

I’ve been working on it for a long time and I’m excited about doing something very different it’s a different period of world history…it spans 150 years. I would say a majority of the film takes place in the 70s. It’s sort of about American mysticism and many things I’m fascinated by.

Corbet shot ‘The Brutalist’ on 35mm 8 perf, and then blew it up to 70mm. He plans to shoot this next film on on 8-perf 65mm. These cameras aren’t easy to find. One of the few times I remember 8 perf being used was to shoot some of the large format photography on 2013’s “Star Trek Into Darkness.”

Regardless, to say that “The Brutalist” was a major step up for Corbet would be an understatement. Nothing about his first two fascinating but flawed films (“Vox Lux,” “Childhood of a Leader”) could prepare us for the scope, size and ambition of “The Brutalist.”

In the meantime, “The Brutalist” is up for 10 Oscars, and we’ll see how many it’ll win come March 2. There’s no production start date just yet for this next film of his, but I’m guessing he’ll be hard at work on it once all of the awards campaigning is over and done with.