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Herzog and Lynch come together for ‘My Son, My Son’

By Priyankar ⋅ May 15, 2008 ⋅ Trackback this Post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

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Werner Herzog seems to be a busy man nowadays. Yesterday only he was in the news for The Bad Lieutenant remake starring Nicolas Cage. And now, according to Hollywood Reporter, he is joining hands with David Lynch for ‘My son,my son’, a horror-tinged murder drama. The script is written by Herzog and his longtime assistant director, Herbert Golder. Its partially based on an actual case of a man in San Diego, who killed his mother with a sword. He was apparently acting out a Sophocles play in his mind. The movie will move back and forth between the actual crime and and an exploration of the man’s psyche. It is intended to be a low budget film shot on guerrilla style digital cameras. Lynch will act as executive producer on the movie.

Herzog is planning to shoot for My son in March after he completes The Bad Lieutenant and The Piano Tuner.

In another interesting development, Lynch’s Absurda company is producing Alejandro Jodorowsky’s new movie, King Shot. Jodorowsky is known for his surreal and enigmatic cult classics such as El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre. David Lynch took up Jodorowsky’s failed project of adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune (Orson Welles, Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger were supposed to star intially with Pink Floyd scoring the music), after the financiers backed out. Kingshot is supposedly a gangster movie. Asia Argento, Udo Kier and Nick Nolte have signed on to star.

(Source: Hollywood Reporter)