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Early Art For ‘Frontier(s)’ Director’s Next!
One of the best parts of JAWS is when the story of The USS Indianapolis is told. In retrospect, it’s probably a more terrifying story than that of JAWS. While the director’s of OPEN WATER work on their version of the true story, FRONTIER(S) director Xavier Gens is out prepping Vanikoro, which brings some of those elements to the big screen (listen to an interview with Gens about the film). Today a French website score a look at some early art for the film, which you can check out inside.
Image from Filmsactu, who writes in, “Gens talks about a famous French mariner Laperouse, got lost in 1788. Historians suppose that he and his crews disappeared on Vanikoro island, one of the Salomon’s Islands. The legend says that the island probably had some dangerous murderers (cannibals!) living people on it who killed any visitors who came closed to them.”
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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