While one of the year’s best films, Clouds of Sils Maria, arrives in U.S. theaters this week, Juliette Binoche has another reason to celebrate. Screen Daily reports she’ll take part in the next film from Bruno Dumont (Li’L Quinquin) titled Slack Bay. Also starring Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, it’s described as a “quirky, dark comedy” which follows an “investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.” Binoche, reteaming with Dumont after Camille Claudel, will take the role of a matriarch in the town. Set to begin production this summer, sales will occur in Cannes ahead of a premiere next year, and one can see more details at the source.
Having left the top position at Focus Features, James Schamus now has time to embark on his directorial debut and it’s a promising one. An adaptation of Philip Roth‘s Indignation, Deadline reports that Sarah Gadon and Logan Lerman will take the lead roles. Set in 1951, it’ll follow Lerman’s character who “grapples with anti-Semitism, sexual repression and the escalating Korean War as he comes of age at a Midwestern Lutheran college.” He meets Gadon’s character at college and the two begin dating, revealing some dark secrets. With production hopefully kicking off soon, we’re greatly looking forward to seeing the results, particularly considering Schamus’ track record.
If this fall’s Everest won’t fill your mountain climbing needs, another related drama is in the works. Michael Sheen, Andrew Scott, and Kelly Macdonald have joined a biopic of 1920s British mountaineer George Mallory titled In High Places, Screen Daily reports. Coming from James McEachen, it’ll follow Sheen as Mallory who embarked on three Mount Everest expeditions in the 1920s and in the last, he disappeared. His body wasn’t discovered until 1999. Production begins this September.
Last, and certainly least, Olivia Wilde will return for Tron 3, THR reports.