I think this will be a big contender for next year https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/babylon-film-damien-chazelle
It's definitely going to be a stacked director year with Scorsese and Spielberg releasing on top of like the entire class of young(ish) buzzy auteurs who all seem one movie away from being Oscar winners: Chazelle, Lanthimos, Reichardt, Baumbach, McDonagh, Aronofsky, Gerwig, Aster and Peele. Then you have complete wildcards like Lynch, Cronenberg and O'Russell. This year is going to be fun!
Here's a good starter pack on the likely contenders https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/04/awards-2023-oscar-nomination-predictions Interesting to see how many are still in the race once they screen.
Came here to post this very thing. I am in shock. A secret Lynch project and a Cronenberg film? I read it might be the pilot for his Netflix series but still, fucking Lynch. I am excited.
If the pilot for the Netflix series is rejected (I don't know why it would but hey) then you already know he's gonna Mulholland Drive that shit, I'm shaking.
Yeah, my friend who worked on the film said the script wasn't very good, but once he went through the whole filming his confidence on it was rekindled
Love Damien Chazelle and love the cast of this, but another film set in the ~Golden Age Of Hollywood is totally unappealing to me. It feels . . . overdone.
I'm surprised since it came from Variety, not just some blog and I'd assumed they double and triple checked their sources but then again Lynch seemed pretty definitive in his denial. Disappointing if true, it was such a lovely surprise. It's been 15 years.
If nothing else I hope he'd at least take this as a hint that people would love a new feature-length offering from him, and especially if Laura Dern was involved too.
