Jim Jarmusch is Making a Vampire Film With Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska
Posted on Monday, May 16th, 2011 by Russ Fischer
The glut of vampire movies has left me almost totally disinterested in seeing even one more story that re-purposes the old folklore. But not ‘totally disinterested,’ because hearing that a filmmaker like Jim Jarmusch is making a vampire movie is something that made me perk up quite a bit. That’s more to do with the fact that Jarmusch is making another movie than anything else, but if he wants to make a vampire movie, I’ll watch it.
And what a cast: Tilda Swinton (who has been featured in the director’s last two films), Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska as the vampires, with a role for John Hurt as well.
We don’t have many specifics, but the lineup as announced now is really all I need to know. The currently untitled movie will shoot early next year in Germany, Morocco and Detroit, with Mr. Jarmusch saying it is a “crypto-vampire love story” and that ““I’ve been imagining this film for years. I can’t wait to now realise it with these remarkable collaborators.”
Jarmusch obsessives will probably recall that he mentioned this film late last summer,when he said,
I have a new film project that’s really foremost for me that I hope to shoot early next year with Tilda Swinton and Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska, who was Alice in Wonderland in Tim Burton’s film. I don’t have that quite financed yet, so I’m working on that.
