The L.A. Times are reporting that one of cinema’s most inventive creative forces are pitching a new project to financiers and whenever Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze are mentioned in the same sentence I’m immediately interested.
The past few years have been good for the pair with Synecdoche, New York marking a solid directorial debut from Kaufman and Jonze’s majestic adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are making itself comfortable in the hearts of millions of us. According to the report the pair would be filling the roles from their previous collaborations with Jonze directing a script from Kaufman, at the moment though only an idea is being pitched, with no details on what the film would be about.
Suffice to say that Synedoche, New York was Kaufman’s take on a horror movie and there was a far more mercurial than magical childhood atmosphere evoked in Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are so the news that the pair are looking to work together is good indeed.
There was an extensive article on Kaufman in Wired a couple of years ago and it’s worth taking a look (and a listen – there’s a complete recording of the interview available) and the writer’s generosity and caution are in evidence but it’s a fascinating profile of the man.
