Variety tell us that a new ensemble drama is being put together, about the intertwining lives of various LA residents and their assorted quests for redemption. In “Lives of the Saints”, apparently, they find forgiveness in the most unlikely of places.
To be honest, this sounds a little clichéd and familiar. Crash provided us with an LA ensemble a while ago and before that both Magnolia and Short Cuts have covered the whole “intertwining damaged lives in LA” thing, in both cases with extraordinary critical and artistic success.
So far, we have Meg Ryan, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, John Lithgow, Joe Anderson (Control, Across the Universe), Anthony Anderson (Transformers, The Departed, K-Ville) and Kat Dennings (The 40-year old Virgin, The House Bunny) confirmed on board, with Chris Rossi writing and directing.
Filming is due to start mid-November and of course it is far too early to say how the film will turn out. Despite the film’s similarity to the other projects named above, there is no reason why, with a good enough script and capable direction, it cannot make its own mark among its esteemed company, as Crash did before it.
