By “Take Shelter” and “Mud” filmmaker Jeff Nichols has revealed he is going back to writing with his next film set to be his first original work since his fourth film with 2016’s “Midnight Special”.
Since then he did 2016’s “Loving” before finally returning to cinemas earlier this year with “The Bikeriders” – both of those projects were based on existing works like Nancy Buirski’s 2011 doco and Danny Lyon’s book respectively.
His new project is in addition to his planned adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s companion novels “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris,” a story about siblings living with the fact that their father helped develop the atom bomb. He tells Deadline:
“I am adapting the last two Cormac McCarthy novels but then I am also writing my first original script since Midnight Special, my fourth film, I’ve been making period pieces and films inspired by other people’s work and this next film for better or worse is going to be cut from Jeff Nichols cloth.”
All other details about the new film are under wraps beyond the fact that it will be based in his native Arkansas where he grew up in a rural setting. Nichols spoke about this while attending the Marrakech Film Festival.
He previously spent several years trying to get a new adaptation of “Alien Nation” off the ground to no effect, and was attached to write and direct “A Quiet Place: Day One” before exiting that project before it went into production.
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