October 19, 2004
I caught Friday Night Lights on Friday night, and it was really pretty great. The direction and editing is especially amazing -- I predict a Michael Mann-style career trajectory for Peter Berg -- and so is the score by Austin band Explosions In The Sky, who once upon a time did the score for Cicadas, directed by Kat Candler (coming soon, finally, to DVD).
I've noticed that I get a fair number of hits from people Googling in search of news about upcoming David Gordon Green films, so in an effort to increase visibility, here's what he said at the Undertow screening last night about what he's working on.
The adaptaion of Confederacy Of Dunces is, as previously reported, dead (due entirely to corporate greed). He's spent the last year working on screenplays, and he has four ready to go, any one of which could be his next film: an adaptation of the novel The Secret Life Of Bees; an adaptation of the nonfiction book Goat, about fraternities; a 70s style action-comedy; and a horror film starring Jennifer Aniston. The first of those was the one he seemed most enthusiastic about, although it's also the one he's having the hardest time getting money for. All of them, he said, will include one of his signature elements: men dancing around in whitey tighties, which he thinks is just downright hilarious.
He also talked about his directing process a little bit, and how after all the intense rehearsing, he has everybody throw the script away two weeks before production begins and won't allow any copies on the set.
I think I might have to steal that technique.
Posted by David Lowery at October 19, 2004 12:45 AM