Three filmmakers who all found great success at Sundance Film Festival with their latest works have recently signed on to promising future projects. First up, after the stellar documentary Senna, we got word that director Asif Kapadia will be taking on a Amy Winehouse-centered doc, but following that he’ll be transferring back to narrative fiction.
According to a press release out of Cannes, Kapadia has signed on to helm an adaptation of Kurban Said‘s period romance Ali and Nino. With a script from Christopher Hampton (Atonement, A Dangerous Method), the story is set in a pre-WWII Azerbaijan, where we follow Ali Khan Shirvanshir, a male descendant of a royal Muslim family, who falls in love with Nino Kipiani, a Christian, Georgian princess. Production kicks off early next year.
Moving to action territory, The Raid director Gareth Evans is hard at work on a sequel to last year’s hit, but we’ve now got word of another potential project. According to Screen Daily, the helmer has signed on as producer and “action director” for The Night Comes For Us. Set in Indonesia, the film will be directed by Timo Tjahjanto (who contributed to both V/H/S/2 and ABCs of Death) and follows “a Triad enforcer who embarks on a bloody journey of atonement after he unwittingly orchestrates a massacre.” Starring The Raid and Fast & Furious 6‘s Joe Taslim, along with Yayan Ruhian, expect it to arrive next year.
Lastly, Jim Mickle impressed us this year with his horror feature We Are What We Are and while he’s currently taking that film to Cannes Film Festival, we’ve got news on what his next project will be. According to Deadline, he has signed on to adapt Joe Lansdale‘s novel Cold In July. The film follows a man who kills an armed burglar in self-defense, but the burglar’s father wants justice. Production kicks off (fittingly) this July for a likely 2014 release.
Are you looking forward to the above projects?