Jodorowsky helming hyper-violent gangster flick
Cannes Film Festival news is in full swing. The latest, courtesy of THR, is that legends Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for My Son, My Son, a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story.
Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote Son which is loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword.
The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man’s story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March.
In other Lynch news, his Absurda production outfit has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s metaphysical gangster movie King Shot.
Marilyn Manson is expected to appear as a prophet in what’s being sold as a Sin City-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
