Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Rob to Co-Star in ‘The Childhood of a Leader’

Juliette Binoche, Tim Roth and Robert Pattinson are attached to “The Childhood of a Leader,” a new drama directed by Brady Corbet, Variety has learned.

The pic is Corbet’s feature directorial debut, after winning honorable mention at Sundance in 2009 for his short “Protect You + Me.”

The drama, which tells the childhood of a post-World War I leader, is tentatively scheduled to shoot in Europe starting in May. Corbet co-wrote the script with Mona Fastvold, the director of the upcoming Sundance drama “The Sleepwalker.” It will be produced by Antoine and Martine de Clermont-Tonnere, Chris Coen and Amour Fou.

Corbet, the star of this year’s Sundance indie “Simon Killer,” just wrapped roles in Noah Baumbach’s “While We’re Young,” Andrea Di Stefano’s “Paradise Lost” and Bertrand Bonello’s “Saint Laurent.”

Variety

ETA: Director Brady Corbet gave more details about the movie to The Aesthete
Corbet is about to embark on his most daunting and risky gamble to date. As soon as he wraps Paradise Lost, he heads back to Paris to begin prep on his debut feature as a writer-director. And it’s a doozy: a WWI-era period drama called The Childhood of a Leader that he plans to film in both English and French with no genre hook or titillating graphic content. “It’s about an American family that has to go to France for the Paris peace conference,” Corbet says. “But it’s really a dark fable about this little boy coming of age during a very politically charged period in world history.” Corbet is well aware that to many it might seem like something of a tough sell. “I’m trying to find new and evocative ways to talk about it and make it sound not so dry because it is very formal, but it's almost a thriller. It flirts with being a thriller for sure. Yeah, it's a strange film. I guess I’ve always been passionate about anything that feels difficult.
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8 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow a new project. I'm so happy about it. sounds very good.

Iluvthemovies said...

Wow, he has had and will have interesting film projects for next year, I hope he will not become exhausted.

Anonymous said...

I'm really looking forward to all these movies. 2014 & 2015 might be wonderful years for seeing some Rob movies.

Unknown said...

O.O... Another one...
How is he squeezing so much in just one year?... He's going to be really busy, not to mention exhausted...
But then again, he's making a very good road for him to walk on...

And I like that his choices have some sort of history and/or deep meaning inside... Very clever!

x

twmmy said...

Good news, good news.

vana said...

WOW, so many interesting choices. Good on you Rob!

No one special said...

I think rob is very keen to offload the twilight tag.

Jane said...

Rob hasn't worked in awhile so I am sure he is so happy to have all these films lined up, It's ironic that Kristen just filmed with Brady and Juliett and now Rob will work with them, of course he has already worked with Juiliett. So much to see in the next two years.