link to tweet: https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1836078146329936267
link to deadline article: https://deadline.com/2024/09/baz-lurhmann-firms-jehanne-d-arc-as-next-film-at-warner-bros-tragic-heroine-1236091520/
Speaking as a long-time, early admirer of Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge will always be a formative film for me)… I don't really trust him with this one.
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Well, can’t get campier than Luc Besson’s Jeanne. Still, I hope it will be a contemprory take a la his Romeo and Juliet.
As long as it’s not a musical, I think it might work… ?
I’m not seeing the vision.
Sounds messy, I’m in.
Really enjoying the mixed reception and different viewpoints! Just wanted to offer mine: while I love Luhrmann’s older films, his more recent films like Australia and Elvis have been misses for me. And I think his current motifs of excess/artifice don’t work well with the Joan of Arc story. My personal desire is for a Joan film to be directed with a flagrant feminist bent by a director like Celine Sciamma or Rose Glass. But I know that’s really specific too and it’s cool that people like different things.