Dunst Joins Lars von Trier's Sci-Fi Disaster Film

Kirsten Dunst has been cast in the next Lars von Trier film, filling in for Penelope Cruz, who bolted for the high seas and Pirates of the Caribbean. The movie is called Melancholia, and if you know anything about von Trier, you know his melancholia is different than almost everyone else's. Heavy, heavy. Deadline says it's a "sci-fi disaster film," which is an interesting direction for both von Trier and Dunst to go. Melancholia will shoot in Sweden this July through September. And Dunst joins a pretty good cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgaard, Stellan Skarsgaard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Udo Kier. Man, Udo Kier is cool. What's it about? Good question. All von Trier would say last fall was, "No more happy endings!" Consider the source. His producer, Peter Aalbaek Jensen described its tone but not the plot in October, calling it "a mix of spectacular, cinematic imagery with Dogme-style handheld camerawork.” It will aslo be “romantic, in a Lord Byron sort of way.” You make sense of that. Melancholia, which was originally announced as Planet Melancholia, is expected to be ready for 2011, and I would wager that it's headed for Cannes, where von Trier shocked audiences last year with Antichrist. Speaking of Cannes, Dunst's short film, Bastard, will be featured on the Riviera next month.

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[Brandon]

Knowing didn't have the "normal" ending in such a disaster film. So is it just going to be like that but no aliens this time helping human kind survive?