While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean -Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard truths” may not have given the awards that many were hoped for, Mike Leigh Go on, switch up to start working on a new project shooting in 2025.
In an edition obtained by IndieWire announced Leigh will recall with “Hard Truths” collaborative partners Bleecker StreetCornerstone, studio channel and British financier film4 to bring film to market. Desmar also joins the team as a stock final, with Georgina Lowe, which produces on behalf of Leigh’s production stallion, Thin Man films.
Plot details on the movie are under cover because it probably doesn’t even know what the movie will be about. As his practice, Leigh comes into a new work only with loose ideas and a role of actors with whom he is interested in shaping these ideas. For months long repetitions, his role independently builds his characters before he joins to improvise together and form a script.
When he describes this process in an interview with Indiegees Ryan LactanzioJean-Baptiste said: “Basically, there is no pitch. The only pitch is: “Let’s work together again.” I know what the process is, so I know I go completely blind, that I have to turn with a list of people I know and that we should filter that list and that we come to two, three people, five in this case, and and Merg them, and it will be the starting point for building this character. But there is nothing, “it will be about this kind of woman or that kind of woman.”
Last year, at the New York Film Festival, Leigh also captured with Indiegees Anne ThompsonWith whom he shared the challenges of getting a job, not only as man in the 80s, but as an artist who does not come into a project with a clear set of plans. But even at that moment, Leigh planned his next move.
“I’m only 81,” he said. “It’s a challenge physically. My cinematographer, Dick Pope, whom I have been working on since “Life is Sweet”, had a great heart surgery just before we started shooting. Our audio recorder, which we have worked with for several years, was a little younger than us and went to hospital twice during photography. I can’t easily get upstairs. But hey, we did it. Everything is possible. Retirement does not seem very attractive. I have performances that kick around. I will not tell you. It depends on how much money we get. ”
Unfortunately only a short time after that interview was given, The Pope went awayMaking Leigh’s upcoming feature The first not shot to be his long -standing friend and collaborator in 35 years.
“Hard Truths” was released in the United States by Bleecker Street earlier this year on January 10, preceded by a award -qualified driving on December 6, 2024. Studiocanal handled the UK’s edition, which started today, while Cornerstone treated international sales, as it will make once For Leigh’s latest work in the European film market in Berlin, which takes place February 13-19, in connection with the 75th Berlinale.
