Coming off the underrated (and undistributed) slasher All The Boys Love Mandy Lane as well as the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winner The Wackness, director Jonathan Levine has signed on to his next project. [The Wrap]
He will direct an adaptation of Richard Aleas‘ crime novel Little Girl Lost for Universal. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World co-writer Michael Bacall will adapt the story that follows “an NYU dropout turned private detective who investigates the death of a stripper who happens to be his high school sweetheart.”
I loved Levine’s style in Mandy Lane and it’s a shame the film hasn’t found a release since its 2006 Toronto International Film Festival premiere. I was less interested in The Wackness but found that Levine captured the time period quite well. He recently finished shooting is third film, Live With It. Formerly known as I’m With Cancer, it stars Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It is expected to a have a festival run next year. This new project sounds like another change of pace for the promising director.
Do you like Levine? Does this seem like a good project for him?