May 11, 2005
Two minute of tape left to trasncribe, I hop online briefly, and what do I find but the greatest thing since weather reports:
CANNES -- French sales and distribution company StudioCanal is backing the upcoming project from David Lynch titled "Inland Empire," sources in Cannes confirmed Wednesday. StudioCanal, a division of Vivendi Universal's French pay TV company Canal Plus, declined to talk about the project, which it has been trying to keep top secret. Even posters for the film on the Croisette and around the Cannes market have been covered until a grand unveiling scheduled for Thursday. StudioCanal is expected to handle world sales on the title, with its French distribution company Mars Films handling theatrical in France. It is unclear whether any cast is attached to "Inland Empire." Buyers already looking at the project say details remain hazy, in typical Lynch fashion. "It's about a film within a film. There's nothing to see, there's no script," one top international buyer said. "But when have you ever seen a David Lynch script in advance?" said another, implying that this did not affect the project's attractiveness.
No cast, they say - but just the other day, David Hudson at GreenCine linked to a brief interview with Jeremy Irons, in which the actor said he was working on a project with Lynch. Could this be it?
In any case, due simply to this announcement and the promise of a pre-production marketing image, Cannes just got even more ridiculously exciting than it already was.
UPDATE!
It is indeed the project Irons mentioned, and the cast also includes Laura Dern and Harry Dean Stanton. And he's already been in production for some time. And he's making it entirely on DV - a format he "waxes lyrical" about in this great article that just showed up in Variety (you don't need to be a subscriber to read it, so start clicking).
Posted by David Lowery at May 11, 2005 05:59 PM
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this is the movie my lead, kristen, has been filming with him off and on for a year now. they just filmed a full week this past week out here in la... cheerio.
Posted by: R at May 14, 2005 09:16 PM