Errol Morris Will Attempt Narrative Filmmaking One More Time Directing The Upcoming Film ‘Weegee’

Errol Morris is one of the most recognizable filmmakers in the documentary film industry. An Academy Award winner, the director is responsible for some of the best docs in the modern era, including “The Thin Blue Line” and “The Fog of War.” And last year, he helmed the hotly-debated film “American Dharma.” But for his next project, the director is attempting to move into the fiction game one more time.

According to Conversations About Her, Morris is lining up a new film titled “Weegee” for his next project. The film marks only the second time in his career that the filmmaker has done a fictional feature film, and hopefully, the first one that he finishes, since he left 1991’s “The Dark Wind” mid-production after a dispute with producer Robert Redford. “Weegee” tells the story of photojournalist Arthur Fellig, self-named Weegee the Famous, after he rose to prominence as a New York City street photographer in the 1930s.

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Morris said, “Weegee may not have singlehandedly invented the noir sensibility, but without him, noir would be unimaginable. He recognized he was constructing his own vision of reality, replete with vivid characters — rich, poor, depraved and otherwise.”

The filmmaker is teaming up with producer Lawrence Schiller on “Weegee.” Schiller is a veteran producer of many different TV films, miniseries, documentaries, and features. He’s won one Primetime Emmy for his work on the TV miniseries “Peter the Great.”

“Errol and I have wanted to make a film together for many years, and the connections between Weegee’s own obsession in documenting antisocial behavior and our own proved to be the connection we were waiting for,” said Schiller.

No release date or casting is named, but we’ll definitely keep an eye out for this project.