Thursday
27Nov2008
Baz Luhrmann in the 25th Century?
Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 8:46PM
Baz Luhrmann's epic
Australia is in theaters this weekend, and I've
already been asked about it several times by people I wouldn't expect to be
interested in a three-hour
Nicole Kidman movie on any subject. By
comparison, nobody has asked me about Transporter 3. Just sayin'.
"That's a great question," replied Luhrmann, who may not have ever conceived of a project like that before. "I don't know about the future but I certainly would do something that is set in a contemporary environment." Added Baz, "I might throw everything away that I've done and I think in your work you have to refresh your life, and I intend to do that once I've sort of collected my own self again."
Continuing to play the what-if game, Luhrmann said that futuristic films could use a new vision, and soon. "Actually there are a few future-projects.... I think if you address it you have to address it in a completely fresh way. It's become a bit old fashioned. I mean the future has become old fashioned."
"Now is so much more consumed with it now than we ever have been before."
I think someone should get him a cool dystopian movie script, pronto, before he spends five years on something else. He's the kind of filmmaker who should show us an alternate future. He's so good making slick-looking costume-driven dramas, I can only imagine what that might look like a couple hundred years down the line.
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