If you sign on for a Todd Solondz film, you know you're not necessarily in for a knockabout farce. More dark, slightly twisted laughs. Penelope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez are the director's latest recruits, joining his new film Love Child.
The Happiness and Wiener-Dog director's new one focuses on an 11-yer-old boy who called Junior is obsessively jealous of anyone else in his mother Immaculada's life. At first the delusional youngster (and Broadway wannabe) decides he's going to kill his abusive father and set his mother up with a lodger.
But he doesn't account for his mother falling wildly in love with the new man, and in a freshly jealous rage has to rethink his strategy, aiming instead to pin the potential patricide on the lodger instead. So, yes: dark humour. Solondz, who wrote the script, is preparing to make the movie, and the rights are will be on sale at the European Film Market in Berlin next week.
Cruz is part of the cast for Murder On The Orient Express and has worked on Escobar with real-life other half Javier Bardem. Ramirez is back on our screens this week in Gold and woll also be seen in David Ayer's Netflix fantasy thriller Bright.