It was reported Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at Warner Bros., but that appears to be false.
Speaking with Spanish news agency EFE (via Digital Spy), Cuaron doesn’t sound like he wants anything to do with heavy visual effects coming off the effects-heavy feature Gravity, at least for the time being. “[Directing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban] was a very beautiful experience for me,” Cuaron said. “I have a lot of love for that universe and I tremendously admire J.K. Rowling, but today, for the present, projects based around lots of visual effects don’t attract me. I’m coming out of a five-year process of doing visual effects and now I sort of want to clean my palate of that a little bit.”
Oh, and the talk of him directing that prequel to Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining? Yeah, that’s not happening either.
What does sound like it’s happening is Michael Haneke (Amour) is preparing his next film, said to be titled Flashmob, a film described by Film Comment as a multi-character drama partly set in the U.S. dealing with the fragile relationship between media and reality. The story will focus on a number of people who meet through the Internet, with their disparate stories brought together at the end by a flash mob.
Flashmob is expected to begin filming this summer suggesting we’ll see Haneke once again in Cannes where he last won the Palme d’Or for Amour before it went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language feature. He also won the Palme in 2009 for The White Ribbon. What are the odds he wins it a third time, something that’s never been done?
