Crash director Paul Haggis has been attached to a few projects recently, including the re-worked Equalizer and the remake of the Spanish Celda 211. But talking to the LA Times while publicising The Next Three Days (his latest film, starring Russell Crowe), Haggis revealed a new film on his radar, called **Third Person.
It's an ensemble drama about "modern relationships", with character development first and foremost on its agenda. Third Person is almost a return to Crash territory, in that it will interweave separate stories, but the canvas this time will be smaller. Only three couples will feature, and the angle is that they're divided into specific "scenic locales". New York and Rome are two, with the third as yet unspecified.
Haggis is going the independent route with this one: shopping it to studios only when it's ready to go, as he did with In the Valley of Elah to favourable results. He promises Third Person will be "dark": any resemblance to ensemble romances like Valentine's Day are, he assures us, entirely superficial.