It’s been almost a year since we heard word on Todd Solondz’s long awaited follow-up to Palindromes. The last we heard, the project was still called Life During Wartime, and it was pitched as a sort-of sequel to Solondz’s two most popular films. Paul “Pee Wee” Ruebens confirmed at the time that the script involved “characters from Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness whose paths converge. It’s all different people playing the same roles [from] those movies.” With little else to go on, we tried to guess which Solondzverse character would be assigned to Ruebens, and concluded: “Given Reubens’ personal history, the Dylan Baker character is probably the most obvious, but I think the Jon Lovitz character might be more interesting.”

There’s finally new news about the project today, and it looks like we guessed right! …Read more