A few months after Rivals became one of the most beloved films of 2024, Luca Guadagnino planned a new work in the Venice Festival. It was about queerhis adaptation of the novel of the same name by William Burroughs (known as Sissy in our country), where Daniel Craig He played the alter ego of the aforementioned Burroughs. While A24 the film will premiere this November 27 In the US, in Spain we still do not have a confirmed distributor.
Meanwhile, Guadagnino, true to his style, continues to accumulate projects on his agenda. We have already lost count of the titles in which the director of Call Me By Your Namebut for now it seems that we can confirm that the next thing we will see of him is a documentary about Bernardo Bertolucci. He has spoken about him in Filmmaker Toolkitpodcast IndieWire. “I’m putting it together now. I have some pending conversations. I want to talk about it with Scorsese. We’ve been recording for a while. They are not interviews; It’s a conversation. It is a very personal film. I am the protagonist of the film. I could call Bertolucci and mealthough I won’t call it that.”
Apparently the title is Joie de vivreand Guadagnino’s idea is to reflect on his admiration for the author of titles like Novecento either The last tango in Paris. This last title is accompanied by an ugly controversy between Bertolucci, Marlon Brando and the sexual scene that they recorded without the express consent of Maria Schneiderand it will be a controversy that Joie de vivre fully addresses (along with the testimony of the critic and historian Mark Cousins). Once he finishes recording it, Guadagnino plans to adapt the novel Separate rooms of Pier Vittorio Tondelli repeating with Josh O’Connoractor Rivals.
There is still more. Shortly after confirming these latest details about Bertolucci’s documentary, the Anglo-Saxon media reported that Guadagnino is in final talks with Lionsgate to adapt the iconic novel American Psychoof Bret Easton Ellis. Naturally, this book has already hit the big screen before, with a thriller who headed Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in 2000.
Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum) is hired to adapt Ellis’s novel. The intention is that this new American Psycho be an alternative version of the book, far from serving as remake for the film Mary Harron. “Luca is a brilliant artist and perfect for creating a totally new interpretation of this powerful and classic intellectual property“he declared Adam Fogelson as president of Lionsgate. Now we have the doubt of how Ellis (now working on his directorial debut) will have taken the fact that the novel that made him famous is described as “intellectual property” by insatiable Hollywood.
And another project
Hours before Lionsgate’s announcement, Guadagnino had revealed his intention to collaborate again with Francesca Manieriscreenwriter of his series We Are Who We Areto adapt a literary classic such as The Buddenbrooks. Published in 1901, this novel portrays the vicissitudes of a German merchant family between 1835 and 1877, and has had an enormous influence on Guadagnino as a filmmaker and storyteller. “There are two books that I grew up with, one I read before queer forks The Buddenbrooks of Thomas Mann. I think they are a kind of mirror from each other”.
“One is about the longing for the past and the inevitability of wanting to see yourself reflected in the gaze of another when you are really attracted to it, and you want to see yourself reflected in the gaze of the other,” says Guadagnino about queer. “And the other is about the decline of a western society rooted in the most brutal form of repression, internal rather than external”
“To understand the obscenity of the repression that is exerted on people, I think we have to look inside the repression that people who exert repression on other people have within themselves, not to justify it, but to go to the root of this heart of darkness”.
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