Terry Gilliam‘s The Zero Theorum will premiere at the Venice Film Festival this coming Monday and today Entertainment Weekly offers some new pictures from the film as well as some words from Gilliam who describes the film as painting “a stark picture of where we are right now”.
The film stars Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the purpose of existence — or the lack thereof — once and for all. However, it is only once he experiences the power of love and desire that he is able to understand his very reason for being. Matt Damon, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges, Ben Whishaw and Tilda Swinton co-star.
Gilliam continues, adding, “The future has come and met us, we actually don’t live in the present anymore, we live in the future because it’s happening so quickly. It’s really about the world we’re living in and being connected. When, as an individual, can we be alone in a connected world like this? Those are the things that intrigue me.”
The site offers up the three new pictures from the film you see below, and also a clip (which can only be viewed here) with Gilliam’s description of the scene accompanying it.
In a recent interview, Gilliam referred to it as being his “Brazil for 2013“. To say that’s intriguing is a bit of an understatement, but will it work this time around as well?
