| Director Peter Bogdanovich, the '70s enfant terrible who's been absent from the director's chair since 2001's The Cat's Meow, is due to return to filmmaking with an adaptation of bestselling novel Turn of the Century, by Kurt Andersen. Don't hold your breath just yet, however, as it isn't even due to start shooting until early 2011. The novel is a social satire that tells the story of a Manhattan couple around the turn of this millenium. Both successful in their chosen fields - he produces a semi-reality show; she develops a video-game that can read your emotions - the couple are wealthy and send their three kids to private schools, but naturally all is not going to go smoothly for them. The book's been compared to Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities; we can only hope that this film adaptation goes rather better than that did. Bogdanovich is planning to write the script alongside his writing partner Parish Rahbar, and to direct, with filming due to start in New York next spring. Well, you wouldn't want to rush, would you? |
