Hey folks, Harry here... Our friend Borys Kit of the Hollywood Reporter broke a story today that Michael De Luca is producing the next very secretive film of David Robert Mitchell, the director of the absolutely fantastic indie horror sensation, IT FOLLOWS!!! Not only that, but that Andrew Garfield will be in the lead! Apparently it is a modern crime suspense film, but the word Noir is also being used to describe that which we really know nothing about at this point. That said, if you take a look at IT FOLLOWS, it's use of shadows and the very nature of the "curse" was a bit Noirish - as it means you have to betray someone you have "relations" with... More Noirish Crime Thrillers would be fantastic. It's one of my all time favorite genres and while many try to play in the genre, few seem to really grasp the essentials to really earn NOIR as a descriptive turn. I need my Day for Night shooting, Femme Fatales, and the inky black moral code of no ill dead will go unpunished karmically -- And most of all, elevate and stylize your dialogue to the point of exquisite quotability. Lastly - drench yourself in the fiction of Dashiel Hammet, Raymond Chandler and Leigh Brackett... there are many others, but those are my faves. I wish all on this project the best.
