A new Werner Herzog is currently shooting in Dublin. Herzog is directing the wonderfully titled “Bucking Fastard” which stars Kate and Rooney Mara as twin sisters, Joan and Jean, living on the fringes of society.
A first look image has been snapped up, and the Mara’s look absolutely creepy. I’m loving the look — image below.
The film is based on the lives of Freda and Greta Chaplin, who became sexually obsessed with their next-door neighbor and eventually received a restraining order. The title of the film is based on a simultaneous verbal slip the twins made in court (via The Film Stage).
“I want to make a feature film about the twins Freda and Greta Chaplin,” Herzog said in his recent book Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir. “In 1981 they had a short run in the British ‘red tops,’ or tabloid newspapers, and were famous for a few weeks for being the ‘sex-crazed twins’ who were so infatuated with their neighbor, a lorry driver, that he took them to court and had a restraining order taken out against them. Their story is unique. They are the only identical twins we know of who speak synchronously.”
Since 1968, Herzog has directed 20 fiction feature films, and 34 documentaries. Some of his most iconic works include “Aguirre The Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo,” “Lessons of Darkness” and “Grizzly Man.”
The last fiction film Herzog released was 2019’s “Family Romance, LLC.” However, his last great one was 2009’s gonzo take on ‘Bad Lieutenant,” starring a deranged Nicolas Cage.
