Untitled French Paul Verhoeven Movie

[Cremildo]

[Socko]

Interesting, I thought he was doing a movie in the US called Young Sinner next fall.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...81&postcount=2

Btw, he turned 85 yesterday!

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by Socko

Interesting, I thought he was doing a movie in the US called Young Sinner next fall.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...81&postcount=2

Btw, he turned 85 yesterday!

A few people are conjecturing that this new French movie might actually be Young Sinner transposed to France due to the strikes. I reckon we'll know more about it soon.

[russweiss1]

He's like the Dutch Clint Eastwood.

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

A few people are conjecturing that this new French movie might actually be Young Sinner transposed to France due to the strikes. I reckon we'll know more about it soon.

i would guess that sounds right.

it shouldn’t be a surprise. his last is based production as hollow man. so to think he wouldn’t shoot in europe, where he is able to get the funding for the projects he wants, is silly.

[Synchg]

Originally Posted by russweiss1

He's like the Dutch Clint Eastwood.

Paul Verhoeven is actually a good director tho

[Cremildo]

Title: Sans Compter. It's an adaptation of a novel by Philippe Djian (the same author who wrote the story Elle was based on).

“Sans Compter” tells the story of Nathan, a journalist, fascinated by Gaby, his mother-in-law, a poet. The latter lives in the same vast estate property as Nathan and his wife. One day a promoter tries to buy parts of the land to build an amusement park and comes up against Gaby's categorical refusal, things get worse: a deputy gets annoyed, a hiker mysteriously disappears and Nathan unravels. The novel is told from Nathan’s, questionable, point of view.

[prkchopexpress]

always excited for more verhoeven!

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

(the same author who wrote the story Elle was based on).

I'm interested.

[prkchopexpress]

maybe huppert collaborates again. the author of elle said he had her in mind when he wrote elle.

more isabelle huppert and verhoeven movies please.

[Steedeel]

Sign me up.

[Monterey Jack]

Suck that this was supposed to be Verhoeven's return to American cinema, but the strikes forced him to shoot it in France.

[prkchopexpress]

we’ll see if he even bothers returning to “american cinema”

he has more freedom and better support in europe. he mentioned in a q&a that he hasn’t wanted to do anything in america because it was too restrictive, and not even in a violence or nudity way. in a plot or marketability way. he says something to the effect of reading a script where the main character dies and wanting to make the movie, and then a producer saying “but the main character can’t die!”

i doubt any studio has the balls to fund that young sinner or whatever it was called that he was going to make with ed neumeier.

he’s also 85. so i’m not sure how much it would even be worth to him go go through the grueling process of getting us studio funding.

[JackForrester]

Originally Posted by prkchopexpress

he has more freedom and better support in europe.

And his movies would get "cancelled" in two minutes these days in America. Stay in Europe Paul.

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by JackForrester

And his movies would get "cancelled" in two minutes these days in America. Stay in Europe Paul.

i don’t even think it is that.

elle played fairly wide and expanded over two months, and was even re-released before and during the oscar’s. black book was released in dutch with no stars in limited release. benedetta even played in some cities. (probably only in ten to twenty major markets i would guess)

i don’t know that a studio is going to spend a ton of marketing a paul verhoeven movie. his movies have come out in the us from sony pictures classic and mubi.

i guess the only issue is, is a studio going to spend $20 million marketing a €10 million production? sadly, international fare doesn’t make a ton of money at the box office in the us.