June
30
Revolutionary Road Won't Hit Fall Fests
Ordinarily, you'd expect to see on the fall fest circuit Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, which stars Mendes' wife, Kate Winslet, and Leonardo DiCaprio, together for the first time since Titanic.
But the Scott-Rudin-produced adaptation of the Richard Yates novel won't be finished in time for Telluride, Toronto or New York because Mendes has been shooting the Focus Features comedy tentatively called Farlanders this summer, a road movie set for 2009 release co-written by Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida, starring John Krasinski and Maggie Gyllenhaal SNL's Maya Rudolph as a young couple seeking the perfect place to bring up their new baby. Maggie Gyllenhaal also stars.
Mendes will return to the editing bay around Labor Day to do the final mix on Revolutionary Road, which DreamWorks/Paramount Vantage will open at year's end. Mendes wanted to squeeze in a pre-strike movie because he has two BBC Shakespeare productions to direct back-to-back in London.
Mendes' next feature film is Andrew Davies' adaptation of my favorite work of literature, bar none: George Elliot's Middlemarch, for DreamWorks.
And Eggers' (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) other upcoming movie is his adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, for director Spike Jonze, which has been pushed back to 2009.
Subscribe to this blog's feed
Maya Rudolph, formerly of SNL, plays Krasinski's girlfriend in "Farlanders" not Gyllenhaal.
Posted by: Sally | June 30, 2008 at 09:44 PM
Sally - I was wondering why I hadn't heard of this. I'm a fan of Maggie's. Thanks for the clarification.
Posted by: Liz | June 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM