Burke and Hare came out in the UK aaaages ago, but it's only just arriving in the US. Out on the publicity trail once again, director John Landis has revealed a few sketchy details of his next project, "a little monster movie" with a Gallic setting.
Landis told BD that the film has no title yet, but "I'm writing it with Alexandre Gavras and we're shooting it within the next two years in Paris." Pressed for specifics he remained cagey, but it seems the project is already some way along: "We know who's gonna star in it, but this is all off the radar right now, so I can't tell you. It's interesting: the cast has to be bilingual because it's being shot in French and English."
Alexandre Gavras is the son of the Greek film director Costa-Gavras. The family connection to Landis goes back some years - Costa-Gavras has cameos in Landis' Spies Like Us and The Stupids, as well as in Burke and Hare - but Alexandre has been less prolific than his father, although his 1998 short film Killer of Little Fishes won an award at Brest and was nominated for a Cesar.
Prior to Burke and Hare, Landis had contributed a couple of segments to Masters of Horror and worked on some other television, but hadn't actually directed a film since 1998, so it's great to hear he has something new in the works already (even if he doesn't explicitly say he'll be behind the camera). Any bilingual stars you think sound likely? We're going to vote for Julie Delpy, for no other reason than that we like her, and that she should probably atone for An American Werewolf in Paris.