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Academy award winning screenwriter turned director Alan Ball, who is riding on the success of his TV show True blood that has been picked up for a second season by HBO, gets chatty about his next two projects.

He hopes to direct a screwball comedy/romantic farce he wrote right before coming across Towelhead. The story is about two incredibly wealthy egomaniacal people “negotiating their sexual relationship within standards of that time, with that language, and with all the trappings of 1936.” Ball has said in other interviews that it is inspired by that era’s Hollywood comedies, calling it “very stylized but fun”.

There will be another dark comedy in the pipeline that has got everybody interested. It is about a woman who just gets fed up with being a doormat. She suddenly snaps and she decides to become a vigilante and it’s got a body count. Ball admits that the film is a hard sell.

Ball is known to breach subjects that are usually a hard sell. His recent work on Towelhead is being hailed as one of the top movies of this year.