
By Romeo San Vicente
Hoffman and Williams Team Up for Synecdoche
He won an Oscar for
playing the lead role in one of last year's most acclaimed gay films;
she got her first Oscar nomination for her heartbreaking performance in
last year's other most acclaimed gay film.
Now Capote's Philip Seymour Hoffman and Brokeback
Mountain's Michelle Williams will join forces for
Synecdoche.
It marks the directorial debut of award-winning oddball screenwriter
Charlie Kaufman, whose wonderfully unhinged scripts include the
likes of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind.
The new film, which starts shooting next summer, will tell the story of
an anguished playwright and the various women in his life.
And because it's Kaufman, almost anything could happen, so expect plenty
of weirdness from the finished product.
|