Over the past couple of years, we’ve written several news stories which announce that music video director Sam Bayer – the guy behind promos as disparate as Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, Green Day’s Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and Justin Timberlake’s What Goes Around Comes Around – is about to make his feature directorial debut.
So one more can’t hurt.
Bayer, who came close to making Alpha Dog, was down to direct Vin Diesel vehicle Black Water Transit, and is currently attached to the remake of Near Dark, is in talks to direct the noirish action thriller, Fiasco Heights.
The movie will be produced by Michael Bay, a man who knows a thing or two about the transition from music videos to movies, along with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form at his production company, Platinum Dunes.
The movie will follow a gunman (hitman?) who returns to the city of Fiasco Heights and teams up with a gambler to search for a femme fatale and a mysterious missing briefcase. Which sounds none more noir, but with a hint of buddy comedy thrown in.
Bayer has a unique visual style and, judging from a documentary we once saw on MTV, an intense personality to match, so his movie debut – when it comes – should certainly be interesting. Perhaps Fiasco Heights will finally see him call ‘action!’ on a movie set for the first time. Or maybe we’ll write another story in three months time, announcing his connection with another project…