The big draw of HBO's True Detective may have been Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, but by the end of that tremendous first season it was Cary Fukunaga everyone was talking about. Fukunaga's first two features, Sin Nobre and Jane Eyre, showed his obvious talent as a director, and his next film Beasts of No Nation is making a lot of noise before anyone has even seen it. Now Fukunaga is lining up his next feature, and it will deal with a very serious and very current problem.
Fukunaga will direct an untitled film based on the true story of Joe and Jadin Bell, and it deals with the real problem of gay suicide. Brokeback Mountain screenwriters Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana wrote the screenplay which tells the story of Jadin, a 15-year-old Oregon sophomore who committed suicide after being bullied at high school and by the people closest to him. Racked with grief, his father Joe sets out on a walk across America to raise awareness about the terrible consequences of intolerance and prejudice.
The next film for Fukunaga will be an adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, It.
