While his daughter Sofia is set to release her prime awards contender Somewhere, Francis Ford Coppola is currently shooting his next film, but he doesn’t want you to know. Deadline is reporting the production has already started in Napa for Twixt Now And Sunrise, “a thriller with overtones of horror” that stars Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, and Bruce Dern.
Based on a short story from the director himself, it is a reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s 1835 short story Young Goodman Brown. Set in “17th century Salem, Massachusetts, the title character, Goodman Brown is returning home to his wife, Faith, when he encounters a man in the forest who is likely the Devil.”
Coppola is financing the film out of his own pocket, with no distributor yet. It’s been a while since we’ve seen “overtones of horror” with the director, Bram Stroker‘s Dracula in 1992 being his last. Val Kilmer has had a bit of a resurgence with some tongue-in-cheek roles in MacGruber and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I’m confident Coppola can grab another quality performance from the actor. I wouldn’t expect to see Twixt Now And Sunrise until 2011 awards season, pending distributor.
Are you looking forward to a horror/thriller directed by Coppola and starring Kilmer?