By Following their smash success with “The Holdovers,” which is up for multiple awards and scored high on many’s best-of-year lists, filmmaker Alexander Payne and actor Paul Giamatti look set to re-team.
David Hemingson, who wrote “The Holdovers,” participated in a Q&A on Friday and revealed that he and Payne are currently working on a new film, a western.
Hemingson confirmed he is co-writing the screenplay with Payne and the film unfolds in Nebraska in 1886 and that there’s a part already put aside for Paul Giamatti.
He also says don’t expect this to be like your regular oater:
“It’s like no Western you have ever seen before, because it’s an Alexander Payne Western. So, all those interpersonal dynamics, all the stuff that he does, so brilliantly. He’s such a brilliant humanist.
He’s going to suffuse this thing. It’ll be recognizable as within the genre, and it’ll have certain other tropes. But we intend to turn them on their head and really talk about the humanist perspective of 1886 Nebraska, which I’m thrilled about.”
The project marks a third time Giamatti is teaming with Payne following “Sideways” and “The Holdovers” with the latter up for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor at the upcoming Oscars.
Source: Deadline
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