Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff’s production company, Cooper’s Town, have taken the occasion of their film “Jack Goes Boating” debuting at Sundance to announce a couple of their upcoming projects in development.
The first is “The Well,” a the psychological thriller starring experienced thesps Guy Pearce and Mary Louise Parker. The two will play a well-to-do Manhattan couple whose obsessive pursuit of salvation ultimately leads to destruction. Tim Guinee will write and direct in what will be his directorial debut.
The second project will be an expansion from a project Hoffman previously participated in with writer-director Kazuo Ohno. “Mr. Crumpacker And The Man From The Letter” shot several scenes in the Sundance labs but will now grow into a full feature length film with Hoffman returning to play the titular Mr. Crumpacker, an overbearing boss who decides to go in search of the meaning of life, even though he lacks any capacity for introspection.
Other projects under the Cooper’s Town umbrella going into development include an adaptation of Dean Colvard’s “Mixed Emotions,” a sports drama set on the cusp of the civil rights movement set within the Mississippi State University basketball team and “The Farm,” the story of a Brooklyn man who finds a renewed sense of purpose when transforming his backyard into a working, urban farm that based on an article from New York Magazine and a subsequent upcoming book.
Cooper’s Town’s first came to together for 2005’s “Capote” with the company has staying Hoffman-centric since then until the announcements of these new ventures. On top of all this though, the versatile Hoffman also has his reunion with Paul Thomas Anderson on the horizon in their untitled historical religious drama.
