Mark Hamill And Jennifer Aniston To Direct Movies
Mark HamillandJennifer Aniston: What they really want to do is direct? It would seem so.
Jen has apparently let slip that she’s developing a film to direct. Why now? Here’s her thinking:
After you get enough movies under your belt you sit back and go, ‘What’s next?’ It’s getting to a time where creatively I want to turn in a different direction.
And that direction is… direction. No clue, though, as to what the film might be about.
Ms. Aniston has directed before. Her short filmRoom 10was made for the Glamour MagazineReel Momentsseries. You can see that embedded below the break…
…as well as find out just what comic book adaption Mark Hamill seems to be getting ready for the silver screen.
Here’sRoom 10parts 1 and 2, found viaCinematical.
There’sslightlyless mystery surrounding Mark Hamill’s fiction feature directorial debut.
The Wrap’s report comes from theFamous People Talkin' About Sh*tpanel at the LA Comedy Festival, where Hamill gave the following clues as to what his movie is going to be:
So, basically then, it’sThe Black Pearl. If you don’t know that comic (and I think the only reason I do is that I worked in a comic shop when it was coming out) it’s about a costumed vigilante but, interestingly, a reluctant one who becomes the nexus for a frenzy of media and public opinion. I remember it fondly.
Hamill has said that he’d originally planned forThe Black Pearlto be a movie. According to his comments toThe Wrap, this new picture is being developed with two writers who “wrote a David O. Russell film for Paramount and now they’ve very hot. So now there are people who are willing to give us $30 million to make the movie. But if we took that deal, I wouldn’t get to direct.”
Instead, Hamill is trying to lock down an $8 million budget, keep the canvas chair for himself and “maintain creative control”. Fair play, sir.
Anybody want to hazard a guess which David O. Russell film, and therefore which writers?
