ベネディクト・カンバーバッチ主演、ロバート・パティンソン出演、ジェームズ・グレイ監督によると“epic and hallucinogenic”な映画『The Lost City of Z』がそろそろ動き出すようです。
The Playlist：“James Gray Says ‘Lost City Of Z’ Will Shoot Next; Talks His Sci-Fi Project, Dances With Brad Pitt & More.”
What is going to happen and will be next following Gray’s upcoming period drama, “The Immigrant” starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, is his long-gestating adaptation of the book “The Lost City of Z” (ironically, a project that Brad Pitt’s Plan B brought to him several years ago).
“’The Lost City of Z’ looks like it will happen,” Gray said with his casual cautiousness. “That’s got Benedict Cumberbatch [in the lead] who’s perfectly cast. I’ve raised the money for that, and I may go do that in January.” (Though last night at BAMcinematek, during a Q&A which yours truly moderated, Gray said September). Co-starring Robert Pattinson, who Gray confirmed is still attached and recently also said the film would likely shoot in Jan, “The Lost City Of Z” is set in 1925 and centers on a legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never again returned.
Gray said the shooting locations will likely be the U.K., and for the jungle sequences, Colombia. What kind of movie should we expect? Last we spoke Gray teased the movie as “epic and hallucinogenic.”
“People have asked me about ‘Apocalypse Now’ and those kinds of movies,” he admitted about reference points for the movie. “Of course those are all great and they’re a huge inspiration and so is [David] Lean. But I’m really trying, the older I get to forget the kind of approach which I’ve had. On the last two movies I’ve watched far fewer movies beforehand and I’m trying to come at the pieces as organically as I can and not think of other movies. Now of course unconsciously that shit’s always going to come out, I’m always going to rip off something.”
監督は2015年1月とインタビューでは口にしたようですが、その前日にあったBAMcinematekでのQ&Aでは9月と言っていたそうで、どちらが正しいのかはよくわからず…
ジェームズ・グレイ監督は、マリオン・コティヤール、ホアキン・フェニックス、ジェレミー・レナーが出ていた『The Immigrant/エヴァの告白』も手掛けていたのですね。映像は綺麗なれど、どうにも主人公エヴァに感情移入できずにう～ん…と思った作品でしたが、『The Lost City of Z』はどうなるでしょうか。
↓和訳本の紹介にはブラッド・ピットがプロデュース兼主演とありますが、事情が変わって彼の主演はなくなり、現在はベネディクト・カンバーバッチ主演となっています。当初は2012年にパラマウントから公開の予定ともなっていました。
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