As buzz builds around Ryan Gosling’s next feature, the daring (and currently NC-17 rated) drama Blue Valentine, he and the film’s director Derek Cianfrance are already looking ahead to their next collaboration.
According to Vulture, Cianfrance is looking to go into production on his next film in the summer of 2011, after the required award season press mania for Blue Valentine has passed. The film, titled The Place Beyond the Pines, will feature Gosling and be “Jack London–inspired,” says Vulture, but when THR asked for details the director’s response was both ambiguous and specific, “[The film] is all about fathers and guns, and it has motorcycles and guns in it. One thing I wanted to do with Blue Valentine was to make a really violent film without guns in it. The next one will have guns, so it will be easier.” So, expecting guns, fathers, violence and motorcycles…I’m going to guess a crime drama/coming-of-age story — with guns.
Blue Valentine, which will open in limited release on December 31, is a brutal and honest look at a crumbling marriage, and balances scenes of joyful grace with sequences of heart wrenching melodrama. Despite this awkward pitch, if Cianfrance’s next picture is half as intriguing as Blue Valentine, count me in. However, he’s currently seeking financing for this proposed father/gun movie, and as there’s currently a question of how many people will see Blue Valentine – as an NC-17 rating would prevent many theaters from carrying it, and many viewers to write it off, and as his latest feature took 12 years to get through production, I won’t be holding my breath.
In other news, THR posted a vid from a very handsome round table (that included Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Colin Firth, and Jesse Eisenberg) in which Gosling details why he’d been ousted from Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones.
So why was Gosling fired from being the father in The Lovely Bones? The simple answer is – he got fat.
The role was later given to Mark Wahlberg.
I got to hand it to Gosling, he handles this question incredibly diplomatically and never even alludes to how poorly the failed adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel did in theaters and with critics. He’s a true class act….and he’s dreamy.
Are you interested in Blue Valentine? How about The Place Beyond the Pines? What did you think of The Lovely Bones?