Update: We decided to do some digging on this story and our sources intimately involved with the filmmaker have confirmed that the project Ellen Page is attached to is indeed “Return Of The Ice Kids.” That project, about a group of teenagers who invent a kind of water that make you hear music, has been kicking around for a while and isn’t expected to go in front of cameras anytime soon (see new writer having been hired). Gondry hopes to get to “The We & The I” next after he wraps up work on “The Green Hornet.” Note the word hope. As always, things can change.
Earlier today, we posted details on a lengthy number of projects from Michel Gondry from our interview with director at SXSW, including an announcement of a new project called “The We & The I.” However, the folks over at MTV were able to squeeze a few more details out of the director including an intriguing bit of casting news on one of his many upcoming projects.
As we previously reported, while Gondry said “Master Of Space And Time” is “not going to happen” it appears the other “similar” project he mentioned that he’s working on has a pretty big name attached. Ellen Page is set to play Nancy “a young woman who participates in the discovery and changes the world” in his gestating project. Interestingly enough, Nancy was also the name of a lead character in “Master Of Space And Time.”
“I’m developing a screenplay with a writer right now about kids who travel [into] the future by mistake and a machine [that] keeps people younger… ehhh, it’s complicated to explain,” Gondry told MTV who were able to confirm that the writer in question is Keith Bunin (“In Treatment”). Bunin is also writing a draft for Gondry’s upcoming “Return Of The Ice Kids,” about a group of teenagers who develop a form of water that makes you hear music when you drink it.
There’s no word yet on when (or if) the film will go in front of cameras with Gondry telling us he hopes to do “The We & The I” next.
Original story posted 3/15/10 at 12:15 PM
"Bunin is ALSO writing a draft for Gondry's upcoming "Return Of The Ice Kids," about a group of teenagers who develop a form of water that makes you hear music when you drink it."
I'd rather say that "The Return of the Ice Kids" and the film with Ellen Page seem to be the same project.
I'm looking forward to anything Gondry directs. And if Ellen Page is involved, even better!
" group of teenagers who invent a kind of water that make you hear music"
WTH? There has to be more to thsi plot. If not then, umm no, just send this straight to DVD.
This is very cool. I absolutely adore Ellen Page and would love to see her doing some great work – I don't want her to peak with Juno and leave it at that. She's deserving of wonderful roles.