Some news from Denis Villeneuve

Hi guys,

After the last article about « Incendies », it is time to give a little update about Denis Villeneuve. You may have heard that he was working on a new movie, but Denis Villeneuve actually has two movies in development. The first one is titled « Prisoners ». In this thriller, the main character named Keller and played by Hugh Jackman is a good father that decides to pursue the man he thinks is his daughter’s kidnapper. 

For some unknown reason, the shooting is postponed to next year. That is probably the reason why Denis Villeneuve is working on a second project, named « An Enemy », with Jake Gyllenhaal. This is an adaptation from the novel « The Other Like Me», by Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. The main character, M. Alfonso, is a History teacher, in the middle of a huge depression after his divorce. In order to overcome the restless nights, one of his colleagues suggests that he rent a special movie. He watches it, and understands that the main character is no one but himself, five years ago. He can no longer sleep, and decides to go to look for himself… So, Denis Villeneuve seems to like these kind of twisted stories, and these two projects with major sexy actors like Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal are good omens. 

I’ve also heard that our new Frenchie actress Mélanie Laurent joined the cast as Gyllenhaal’s mistress. As we can see in the first pictures from the shooting, that just started in Toronto, Jake has a nice biker look, with a big beard and a leather jacket. We do not have a release date yet, but we can hope to see it in the first mid-2013.