Roman Polanski to Direct VENUS IN FUR Film!

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:47am

This should be interesting and different. LOVE me some Louis Garrel!
Polanski to shoot adaptation of Broadway's Venus in Fur, ahead of D

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:49am

So a movie about two people in a room reading a script.

Sounds even more thrilling on screen than it was on stage.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:03am

Yes, give him another incredibly stagey adaptation to work with because he did so well with "Carnage."

[dreaming]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:05am

The material for this could be well translated. Let's see what he does with it.

And I bet anything Nina Arianda gets to reprise her role.

EDIT: His French wife is going to play Vanda.

Such a shame that Arianda's performance won't be reprised on film. Updated On: 9/20/12 at 11:05 AM

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:50pm

I loved the Broadway production and therefore am very worried about what Polanski is gonna do. Carnage was horrible!

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:59pm

In French? NOOOO. Nina, Nina, Nina!!!!!!!!!!

[castlestreet]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:59pm

I guess I've never really gotten the love for Polanski's film work- I think Rosemary's Baby holds up very well to this day and is still one of the first movies I pop in around October of every year, but I would be hard pressed to mention any others I feel the need to return to.

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:06pm

I feel the same way TotallyEffed! You can't the movie version without the incandescent Nina Arianda!

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:08pm

Really, castle? Not even "Chinatown"?

[luckyleo81]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:08pm

Well I guess it will be interesting to at least see what they do with Wanda being that Seigner is practically 2 decades older than Arianda.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:16pm

^ To me, that's the most compelling and encouraging part of this news.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 2:02pm

Why bother without Nina Arianda?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 3:59pm

I love this play and think it could work on film and that Polanski could do it quite well. But without Arianda? OH HELL NO.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:03pm

Nina's performance is one of my all-time favorites but maybe she even wants to move past it now and try something new (that isn't Born Yesterday).

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:13pm

Darnit, why can't someone whose films I don't refuse to see direct these adaptations of critically acclaimed plays?

[castlestreet]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:52pm

mysteriousgrowl- to be honest with you- I liked the movie, but it is not something that I feel the need to go back to.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:06pm

I had the same thought to this news as thebrilliantgrowl-- Then again, Polanski has done some good to great work in clausterphobic settings (Knife in the Water, Repulsion, parts of Rosemary's, Death and the Maiden--based on a play as well, and to an extent Bitter Moon), so maybe the complete waste of time that Carnage was is an exception.

I like the idea of this being in French, for some reason...

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:25pm

Eric, I thought of "Death and the Maiden," too, and was heartened!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:36pm

Right and the themes and tension in Venus in Furs does seem more fittingly old school Polanski than God of Carnage did. (Kinda funny that God of Carnage was a French play originally, but he filmed the English version, and now this will be in French...)

[Jim Colyer]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 8:28pm

Polanski's 1971 film version of MacBeth is quite a chilling experience.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:00pm

I am partial to The Fearless Vampire Killers, though I think Michael Kunze and Jim Steinman did a better job with the story in Tanz der Vampire (let's just not discuss DOTV, shall we?).

[chris d]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:14pm

looking forward to this. I thought Carnage was great.

[johnpressman]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 12:38pm

I'm sorry, and no, I do not consider this a "political" stance, but NO mention of Polanski's being a fugitive from U.S. justice for drugging and raping a 13 year old girl??

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 12:45pm

I'm pretty sure SporkGoddess referred to it obliquely...

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 12:56pm

I have a personal history with issues dealing with sexual abuse--and always take such issues personally, whether I should I shouldn't. When it comes to Polanski, and what's become of his case, I think it shows he's an idiot, has hurt some lives, and isn't someone I would ever want to have as a friend. And it doesn't affect how I see his films.

Which is hypocritical of me. I actually feel kinda the same way about Woody Allen--obviously what he has done was never called rape, but I think there's some similarities there. I think he's vile--in at least that aspect.

*ducks*