10/12/2014
Spike Lee, Sean Durkin, and Joseph Koskinski Line Up New Directing Gigs
There doesn't seem to be a lot of clamor out there for Spike Lee's latest, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, which to the best of my knowledge doesn't have any kind of distribution. The film was crushed by critics and coming off the terrible response to Oldboy it looks like Lee is heading back to documentaries where he's found much greater recent success. He'll direct a doc on Mo'Ne Davis, the first girl to get a win and pitch a shut out in the Little League World Series. The film will follow her team "the Taney Dragons and their journey to the Little League World Series." [Wooder Ice]
A couple of years ago David Gordon Green made the surprising decision to direct a feature adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie. Well, nothing has been heard about it since and with Green much busier these days he's dropped out. But another unlikely choice has come aboard in Sean Durkin, who made a splash with his debut feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene. He will direct the film based on a script by Abi Morgan (Shame), which like the iconic TV version will follow a pioneer family settling in the 1880s American Midwest. [THR]
After establishing himself in the sci-fi realm with Tron: Legacy and Oblivion, Joseph Kosinski is getting into dramatic territory with The Trials of White Boy Rick. The provocatively-titled film is based on the true story of 17-year-old Rick Wershe, a Detroit drug dealer who began working as a police informant.