It's a story frustratingly light on actual details, but the word on the street is that Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze are touting a mystery new project around Hollywood's indie financiers.
The film is only at the pitch stage at the moment, which seems to mean it isn't yet even written, but if it comes together it will be the first time the writer and director have got it together since their critically lauded Adaptation in 2002. Jonze was initially down to direct Synecdoche, New York, but jumped ship to Where The Wild Things Are, leaving Synecdoche in Kaufman's own peculiarly baffling hands.
What the new film apparently definitely *isn't *is Frank or Francis, Kaufman's musical satire about a commercially successful hack director who resents not being an auteur (kind of exactly the opposite of Kaufman's own life). Kaufman has been working on that screenplay since finishing Synecdoche in 2008, but the LA Times' sources say that, while everybody loves it, particularly at Sony where it was initially set up, nobody quite has the cojones to run with it at the moment.
Which leaves both Kaufman and Jonze (whose Wild Things didn't quite rock the world in the way that was anticipated) twiddling their thumbs. Hence Mysterious Unwritten Project. Is it a Being John Malkovich, an Adaptation, a Synecdoche, or something we couldn't possibly imagine? We're going with the latter. More news as we get it.