The whole production of Jane Got a Gun, the new film starring Natalie Portman that I reported a bit on last week, has been thrown up into the air as Lynne Ramsay surprised everybody by dropping out of the film. Even more surprising is the way she did that- by not showing up on the first day of production. Producers insist that the film will still be made, and that another director will be found shortly, but one must begin to wonder about the status of the film. There were already a number of casting changes, and the last minute addition of Jude Law. This all begs the question- will the film actually be made?
I wasn't a huge fan of Ramsay's last film, We Need to Talk About Kevin, but she still showed talent as a director with it and I looked forward to Jane Got a Gun. That being said, I had no personal investment in it. I'm more interested in the fact that Ramsay would actually drop out. Obviously, nobody knows why she dropped out at the moment, but my knee-jerk reaction is that this could be a career ruining move. Not necessarily because Jane Got a Gun was ever going to be a big film, but because the funding was present for the film and the entire cast, including an A-lister like Portman, were ready to go, yet Ramsay failed to even show up. Ramsay already had trouble getting funding for Kevin, a film that went by almost entirely unnoticed by mainstream audiences, and this film-which could have been her big break- has possibly been killed, thanks almost entirely to her actions. I don't want to jump the gun, but it doesn't look good for her.
After the jump, check out the new trailer for Despicable Me 2 and more!
In other news...
- The trailer for Despicable Me 2 was posted online. While the trailer didn't reveal much about the plot, it does offer actual footage from the film, unlike the teaser. Compared to this summer's other major animated feature, Monsters University, I'm actually somewhat interested in checking this out. That being said, nothing about this project has me all that optimistic or excited.
- Beloved director Mike Leigh (who I am slowly working through the filmography of) has just confirmed that his next film will be a biography of J.M.W. Turner starring Timothy Spall. The film will be released 2014 via Sony Pictures Classics. Production begins this spring. I've just recently seen Vera Drake, my introduction to Leigh's works, and really liked what I saw. So, I think this project will be exciting and will certainly keep an eye on it.
- Finally, a film version of the Goosebumps franchise is in production with director Rob Letterman (Gulliver's Travel) at the helm. There isn't much information about the film, but a film version was nearly put into production last year but, apparently, nothing ever came of it. As a 90s kid, I loved this series and would be interested in a film version though I'd rather see it as an anthology of sorts, with different directors for each segment. But, we'll see what happens.
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