You are Jim Jarmusch. You’ve been busy assembling the cast for your planned stab at the vampire genre, Only Lovers Left Alive. You’ve scooped up Tilda Swinton, John Hurt and Mia Wasikowska for the horror drama, but you’ve missed out on the overbooked Michael Fassbender. What do you do? No, you don’t go to a screening of Shame and throw fruit at the screen: you hire Tom Hiddleston.
Yes, the recent Empire web chat visitor, Loki himself, has stepped in to one of the lead roles for the film, which Jarmusch has described as a “crypto-vampire love story.” “I’ve been imagining this film for years,” Jarmusch told Screen Daily back when he was looking for financing in Cannes. “I can’t wait to now realise it with these remarkable collaborators.” Very little is known about the plot beyond the fact that it concerns two vampires (presumably Hiddleston and Swinton) who have been in love for centuries.
Though waiting for the money to come together has meant Fassbender became unavailable, Jarmusch is now setting his sights on a shoot in the NRW region of western Germany later this year.
Hiddleston, meanwhile, will be back as Loki in little known indie pic The Avengers on April 27.