Directors Ben Wheatley And Yorgos Lanthimos Line Up New Projects

When it comes to visionary young filmmakers, you don’t get much more critically beloved than the pair of Ben Wheatley and Yorgos Lanthimos.

Now, both directors have new projects in the works, and both sound as off the wall and exciting as anything they’ve given us to date.

First up, Wheatley’s next film (well, one of the cavalcade of projects he’s got on his plate) will be a new film entitled Two For Hell. Joining the pair of the thriller I Macrobane and the actioner Freakshift, the film has been revealed by Empire, and will be penned by he and writing partner Amy Jump. The film says that it’s currently being written, as he films his upcoming release A Field In England (which will arrive after Sightseers, the film that will be debuting from him here stateside at Sundance this year. I told you he has a ton of films on his plate), and that it will be a crime film. That’s all we know at this point. Described as a 2013/2014 film, it’s shocking to see the clip at which Wheatley is working, but thrilling too, because he’s one of today’s most interesting filmmakers. Expect at least two films from him this year, with the same going for 2014. It’s an exciting time to be a genre nerd.

Finally, Flix (via The Playlist) reports that Lanthimos is about to head to the Rotterdam Cinemart to pitch a new film entitled The Lobster, a romance film penned by  he and co-writer Efthymis Filippou. Here’s the alleged synopsis:

An unconventional love story set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the rules of the Town, are arrested and transferred to the Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into the woods. A desperate Man escapes from the Hotel to the Woods where the Loners live and there he falls in love, although it’s against their rules.

As a fan of both Lanthimos’ films, Dogtooth and Alps, this is a film I can’t wait to see. Lanthimos is another one of today’s most intriguing filmmakers, and the idea of him taking on a project akin to something like this is really quite exciting. Hopefully we’ll be seeing both of these pictures sooner, rather than later.

Source Empire / The Playlist