The Favourite
The Favourite’sYargos Lanthimos will direct the crime filmPop . 1280 . Nominated for 10 Oscars , including Best Picture and Best Director at this year ’s Academy Awards , The Favouritehas , to date , been a awaken success , focusing on England ’s Queen Anne ( Olivia Colman ) as she develops a fondness for her new servant ( Emma Stone ) , much to the displeasure of her tightlipped confidant , Lady Sarah ( Rachel Weisz ) .
Lanthimos has been one of cinema ’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers for some fourth dimension now , with his highly originative and surreal visual modality make him a film fete awards favorite , starting with 2009’sDogtooth . Since then , he ’s find himself on something of a roll , with numerous awards and accolades forThe Lobster , The Killing of a Sacred Deerand most lately , The Favourite . By far his most well - received film to date , The Favouritehas already won 7 BAFTA Awards in the lead up to his potentially tremendous Oscar rivulet . Now , he ’s already convey his take after - up film be after .
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With a succeeder rate as impressive as what he ’s experient to date , exactly what Lanthimos ’ next undertaking will be has been of substantive pastime to many . Now , according toDeadline , it ’s been expose that his next film will be an adjustment of crime writer Jim Thompson ’s novelPop.1280 . UnlikeThe Favourite , which saw Lanthimos relinquish scripting duties to Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara , Pop.1280will be written and directed by the acclaimed filmmaker .
publish in 1964 , Thompson’sPop.1280deals with a humble townsfolk sheriff by the name of Nick Corey whose friendly demeanor is the perfect cover for the wily psychopath that he truly is . Through his homicidal and manipulative ways , Corey rule the town of Pottsville , Potts County and its population of 1,280 . The novel has been well get in the year since its release , with some critics labeling it Thompson ’s chef-d’oeuvre . Many of Thompson ’s other novels have been adapt by a smattering of big name film producer as well , includingSam Peckinpah , Michael Winterbottom , Stanley Kubrick , and Stephen Frears . Lanthimos ’ adaption wo n’t be the first time thatPop.1280has been wreak to the big screen , either . Gallic film producer Bertrand Tavernier adapted the novel in 1981 for the French languageCoup de Torchon , which was nominate for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1983 Academy Awards .
It ’s often the case with some filmmakers that once the awards and accolades pile up , their work becomes more palatable and commercial . Lanthimos , however , genuinely do like a filmmaker whose creativity and willingness to push the envelope ca n’t be diluted . His artistry is that rare mixture of uncompromising sight and talent that is capable to lure in enceinte name stars as well as hearing who may not typically be fascinate by films that are often labeled as " art house . " Given the plot and subject matter ofPop.1280 , it could be that Lanthimos has already found his next highly piquant awards contender .
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Source : Deadline
