Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, J.J. Abrams, David Fincher, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Cameron Crowe, Nicolas Winding Refn — all of these are directors rising star Elle Fanning already had the pleasure to work with, and as the 17-year-old actress continues her uprising career she add another filmmaker to her list: Miguel Arteta.
The director behind everything from indie comedies like Cedar Rapids and Chuck & Buck to quiet character dramas like The Good Girl to now family romps starting with last year's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day adds young-adult romance to his list of genres with All the Bright Places, based on the YA novel of the same name by Jennifer Niven, Variety reports.
All the Bright Places, both the book and the upcoming movie, centers on a girl who learns to live from a dying boy. Hopefully it's not as corny as this description. Published earlier this year, it's a New York Times bestseller and already translated in 35 languages, so hopefully the writer's words makes this story come to life. Having Nevin also pen the screenplay for Arteta's feature is probably for the best, if that's the case.
Demarest Media backs up the feature, a growing production company behind last year's A Most Wanted Man, featuring one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final on-screen performances, and Kevin Smith's Tusk and producing the upcoming AMC series The Night Manager, starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. Leif Lillehaugen is in charge on their fronts, as he watches over their upcoming spring shoot.
In addition to the unique roundup of films he helmed, Arteta also directed episodes of Grace and Frankie, Getting On, The Carrie Diaries, Nurse Jackie, The New Normal, House of Lies and Enlightened throughout the past couple years. The man doesn't like to pigeonhole himself to one specific type, it seems, in any media.
Additionally, Fanning also has a number of projects scheduled to come out or expected in the near future. Trumbo comes to theaters on November 6, and she also has the transgender drama Three Generations scheduled to screen in theaters on September 18. Refn's The Neon Demon, meanwhile, comes out in early 2016. She then films a role in Ben Affleck's Live By Night in November, and also plans to shoot John Cameron Mitchell's How to Talk to Girls at Parties before the end of the year.
After that, she plays Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley in A Storm in the Stars, and is attached to Mike Mills' (Beginners)) latest, 20th Century Women, the biopic The Dancer and the animated Ballerina, all presumably before she arrives on set for this new movie. The girl isn't even 18, and she's already working harder than most people in Hollywood. In addition to being one of Hollywood's most prominent young talents, she's also one of their best. So this is all in good favor.
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