It’s probably not a great sign that the release of Michel Gondry’s upcoming Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def, has been pushed back to the icy winter wasteland of late January. With major critics too busy in the proceeding weeks to see much beyond Oscar hopefuls before heading off to Sundance, it’s traditionally the portion of calendar where movies destined to draw bad reviews go to hide. But even if that one’s a wash, Gondry’s next project sounds really, really cool. He tells MTV News:
I am working on an animated film with my son…We’re translating our relationship into a futuristic story with a dictator and a rebel. He’s the dictator in the story [and] it will be based on [his] art.
The MTV story doesn’t specify which son Gondry’s talking about–he has two–but according to Director’s File, it’s Paul Gondry, who is 16. He recently made an animated music video for The Willowz. You can watch that here; I’ve pasted a still of it above.
For a slice of the father-son relationship ostensibly inspiring this new project, check out this interview Paul conducted with his dad for INTERVIEW Magazine last year, around the time Michel’s The Science of Sleep was released in the U.S. In the interview, Gondry said he cast Gael Garcia Bernal in that film’s lead role because “he looks like [Paul] a little bit.” Paul said, “It’s hard for me to watch your movies sometimes because they’re always based on everything you went through and I was there with you in a way.” Michel responded, “Same for me.”
[Via Twitch]
