Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has made quite a splash this year with the Joaquin Phoenix-starring You Were Never Really Here, her follow-up to 2011 adaptation We Need to Talk About Kevin. What’s next for Ramsay? In a chat with BIFA, she just teased a horror film!
Ramsay told the site, “I wrote 160 pages of a script just after doing all the press for ‘You Were Never Really Here,’ because it’s hard to keep talking about the same films. But I was really inspired by making [that] film, so I’ve started writing this epic environmental horror thing. I don’t know what it is yet, I just kept writing and didn’t look back.”
“I want every film [I make] to be different,” Ramsay added. “I’d love to make a comedy. People go, ‘Oh, your work’s so dark.’ I’m like, ‘Is it?’ Because I always put some kind of comedy elements [in] as well. You’re always exploring as a filmmaker, y’know? But it takes a while to make films, unfortunately. Especially if you write them as well.”