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A Topiary
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Science Fiction
Production Phase: Script Stage
Who's Making It: Shane Carruth (Director), Shane Carruth (Screenwriter),
Premise: The storyline is rumored to be split into two parts, one following a man in the 1980s investigating strange starbursts in the sky, and the second following 10 young boys creating strange shapes using a... More »
What We Think: Shane Carruth directed and wrote 2004's cerebral drama Primer. He's bringing the hard sci-fi back into movie science fiction, and that's a good thing. His next sounds even weirder in its concept than Primer, and... More »
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The first published script review for Shane Carruth's A Topiary has gone up at Scriptshadow. The reviewer gives Carruth's massive 244 page screenplay a positive but not enthusiastic endorsement, saying that his biggest issue was that he was left unsure of what was going on.
"The script can be frustrating and it can feel long at times and it can lose you at others, but it also feels like it was written by someone who knows exactly what they want to do with it and have a clear vision on what it should look like in the end," writes Scriptshadow's Aaron Coffman. "It's an original work and boy do we need more of those right now."
- Scriptshadow. Comment on this Scoop (0)Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Details on Shane Carruth's next movie are turning up online. The project is called A Topiary and seems to have several strange story elements including a two-part narrative, one involving young boys experimenting with a mysterious box that creates geometic shapes. A teaser site for the project has been discovered that features a placeholder graphic which reads "Over and over you have been promised adventure but have not found it." And if you view the page's source, there's some hidden text which reads, "The Chorus is warming up." [Full story]
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