Two-time Academy Award winner Alexander Payne (“Guardians”) teased the upcoming sequel to his beloved darkish comedy “Election” whereas expressing his need to department out into style movies in Sarajevo on Sunday, sharing a glimpse of the upcoming Extra particulars of a western, but in addition expressing his concepts.
Penn, who was attending the Sarajevo Movie Pageant to obtain a Lifetime Achievement Award, gave an replace on the sequel to his 1999 adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel, which stars Reese Witherspoon as ruthless go-getter Tracy ·Flick.
Paramount is reportedly creating a sequel to “Tracy Flick Cannot Win” for streaming service Paramount+, primarily based on Perrotta’s follow-up novel revealed in 2022, with Witherspoon set to reprise her position ’s iconic position, Payne will direct.
“There have been conversations. Jim Taylor and I are conceptualizing this proper now,” Payne mentioned Sunday, describing conversations together with his longtime collaborator who was additionally in attendance. “If there was a sequel to Election, what wouldn’t it be like?”
The Oscar winner additionally opened up about his upcoming Western collaboration with “Previous College” screenwriter David Hemingson, citing the affect of Anthony Mann (“Winchester 73”) whereas detailing the movie’s plot. Confidentiality.
“It could be good to take a sensible/naturalistic strategy to Westerns and use landscapes, as a result of a way of place is vital within the movies I make,” he mentioned. “It was actually enjoyable to have a higher dramatic, archetypal interaction between the characters and the surroundings.”
Chatting with a packed home on the Bosnian Cultural Heart in Sarajevo, the Nebraska native additionally expressed his “need to make a great automobile chase film, like ‘Bullitt,'” in line with Peter Peter Yates’s iconic 1968 motion thriller starring Steve McQueen.
“I simply watched an exquisite French movie shot in Athens in 1971, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Omar Sharif,” he continued. “Henri Verneuil is the director. “The Thief.” ‘theft.’Wonderful automobile chase. There are additionally masterpieces just like the film Vanishing Level. I needed to do a automobile chase. I additionally wish to make a detective film.
Penn’s eight characteristic movies have been nominated for twenty-four Academy Awards, together with 4 for Greatest Image and three for Director. He has gained the Tailored Screenplay Award twice and this 12 months gained Greatest Supporting Actress for “Guardians.” His movie credit additionally embody Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), The Descendants (2011), Nebraska (2013) and Downsizing” (2017).
On Saturday evening, Payne acquired the Sarajevo Coronary heart of Honor Award and launched a particular screening of his 2004 tailored screenplay Oscar winner Sideways, which returns 20 years after it first screened on the Bosnian Movie Pageant.
When requested about his relationship with movie star Paul Giamatti, the director cited well-known display screen collaborations resembling Bergman-von Sydow and Fellini-Mastroianni Companions as examples of relationships.
“That they had nice chemistry they usually instinctively understood what film they have been making collectively,” he mentioned. “I wish to have these relationships with actors, however I do not. As a result of each script I end is so totally different. I’ve at all times been jealous of administrators who’ve a long-term relationship with an actor.
“I’ve a reference to Giamatti,” he continued, drawing incredulous laughter from the viewers. “So much,” he admitted. “After working with him 20 years in the past on Sideways, which screened in Sarajevo in 2005, he and I actually needed to work collectively once more. And since I do not make films that always, I haven’t got that many alternatives to supply him one thing. factor.
Payne launched a particular screening of Sideways in Sarajevo.
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A kind of missed alternatives was “Downsizing,” the director’s 2017 sci-fi comedy about people miniaturizing to save lots of the planet, which was initially conceived to star Giamatti. “It was tough to get financing for a film starring him as a result of it was a really costly film,” Payne mentioned. The position finally went to Matt Damon, though the movie nonetheless failed miserably on the field workplace.
The director insists that preserving the movie’s finances intentionally low was a means of avoiding interference from financiers.
“I needed a low finances. The liberty is in a decrease finances,” he mentioned. “Wherever on this planet, the dearer a film is, the extra nervous the individuals who management the cash shall be and they’re going to attempt to affect you. Even if you’re sturdy and might resist their affect, they’ll nonetheless seep in.
“Whenever you’re making a film, you don’t need anybody speaking to you—particularly individuals who solely take into consideration cash. And the best way to do this is to consciously hold prices down,” he continued. “I needed low finances. I did not need anybody to consider what I used to be doing. Stanley Kubrick, identical factor. Hold his finances low so individuals would not hassle him.
When requested in regards to the secret to sustaining his celebrated profession, Payne described his inventive course of as “all really feel, intuition—second after second at nighttime.”
“You get off your butt and write. You simply should hold doing it,” he mentioned. “I had simply completed filming The Holdovers and I used to be touring, and folks would say, ‘Oh, do you’ve got a brand new venture?’ New venture? I haven’t gotten right down to writing a script but. You need to put in 5 to 10,000 hours.
The Sarajevo Movie Pageant takes place from August sixteenth to twenty third.
