Dude’s schedule is now booked for the next three-four years.
After his upcoming work on medieval-comedy “Your Highness,” starring Danny McBride and James Franco, renowned indie director David Gordon Green will move onto his adaptation of Steve Niles’ (“30 Days Of Night”) comic book series “Freaks Of The Heartland,” according to MTV.
“It’s funny, because now [Gordon Green’s] on everyone’s radar because of ‘Pineapple Express’ – but I was a fan of his before that and I know that he had wanted to do ‘Freaks of the Heartland,'” revealed Niles, who will also produce the film. “I think he’s got a movie in between, but right now we actually have a screenplay and we’re going back to work on that. And that’s just progressing great.”
“Freaks Of The Heartland” is a 6-issue comic miniseries that follows a freakishly deformed boy and his brother who run away together and help a band of other mutant children from their rural Middle American town do the same.
It is not known when “Your Highness” will start or finish shooting but as Franco was forced to pull out of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” (which is set start shooting this summer) for it, ‘Highness’ must have a similar or overlapping schedule. Will probably arrive sometime in 2010, no? We can only hope.
I dunno about another stoner comedy. I enjoyed Express…but this might be a bad career move on both his and Franco’s part. I mean, this over a Chris Nolan film? we’ll see. Freaks sounds interesting. The cover of the comic looks like the poster to Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven.
sounds like ‘undertow’
Undertow take 2, only creepier and actually good.