Via Fangoria, here’s news that Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali has finally gotten off his ass and is gearing up his first full feature-length movie since 2003’s “Nothing”. (In the meantime, he had done the documentary “Getting Gilliam” in 2005, and did a segment of the French film “Paris, je t’aime” in 2006.) Anyways, it’s good to hear that Natali will be back with a full movie, if only because I find everything he does to be infinitely fascinating, ever since his highly creative low-budget hit “Cube” in 1997. And hell, I even loved his short film “Elevated” in the same year.
Natali’s latest announced film is “Spliced”, a film he co-wrote along with Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor, about a pair of hotshot genetic scientists who have won fame by combining DNA from different species to create unusual new ones—and what happens when they begin adding human DNA into the mix. Guillermo del Toro (”Hellboy”) will be producing.
No idea when “Spliced” will get made, since according to IMDB.com, Natali has two other films scheduled at about the same time — “Uberman” in 2007 and the fascinating sounding “High Rise” in 2008. The later will be based on J.G. Ballard’s novel about the tenants of a skyscraper who descend into a pseudo-tribal warfare.
No worries, as long as Natali remembers to write a part for his buddy David Hewlett.
A scene from Natali’s break-through hit, “Cube”.
Related Posts