This'll Get You Over That Work Week Hump
By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (4)
I’m still middle of the road on the mumblecore kids. I dig the Duplass Brothers for the most part, and Josh and Benny Safdie have been deservedly making a name for themselves with The Pleasure of Being Robbed and their latest Daddy Longlegs. I’m extremely curious to see how Cyrus turns out, because that’s gonna make a statement to a lot of people — both in how the Brothers Duplass handle a mainstreamish flick and if Jonah Hill can carry a film.
Regardless, one of the heroines of the mumblecore movement, Lynn Shelton — who’s Humpday I adored — has announced her next project. Get ready to rejoice, kiddies, because she’s bringing Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came To The End to the big screen. It’s a marriage of two forces I enjoy — like chocolate and peanut butter coming together in a Reesian joygasm in my mouth. This ain’t gonna be mumblecore, that’s for damn sure, and I think Shelton’s gonna have a great temperment to build a strong ensemble cast and just let them wreck all holy hell around the officeplace.
There’s no cast in place as of yet, but I think this is a damn fine choice. A more commercial director would try to make Office Space 2, which is hardly the tone of the book. For all its humor, the book’s pretty fucking bleak, so I think nabbing Shelton is a wise selection. She’ll be able to retain all the hilarity without losing any of the day-to-day depression.
(Source: Indiewire)
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Posted by: TylerDFC at March 5, 2010 10:10 AM
I really need to check out "Humpday". It's been in que forever, hell it's available on Netflix on demand. I can see a hell of a lot that can go wrong with an adaptation of "Then we Came to the End". The trailer is going to be pretty telling on this one. I loved the book but there was a strange separation between the reader and the events that made the last reveal all the more interesting. I worked in the corporate world when things were falling apart (telecom crash of the early 00's) and the book hits me right in the gut at certain points. If they can somehow capture the end-of-days tone of the book the movie could be stunning.