Lynne Ramsay Gets Funding To Launch ‘Moby Dick’ Into Space With ‘Mobius’
I’m still haunted byLynne Ramsay’s last film,We Need to Talk About Kevin, which I believe is one of the best horror films of the last few years. And so “We Need to Talk About Moby Dick in Space” is a great title for the announcement that Ramsay now has financial backing forMobius, the film in which she’ll launch a version ofHerman Melville’s novelMoby Dickinto space. But BADalready took that one, so we’ll go with something more basic.
Regardless, Ramsay andKevinco-writerRory Kinnearmay now get to make their “psychological action thriller set in deep space.” With many other directors on board, that might sound like a pretty routine effort, but from RamsayMobiuscould become one of the films I’m most excited to see in the next few years.
THRannounces that Scott Pictures is backing the project; the outfit is also producingJane Got a Gun, the western that Ramsay will shoot in January with Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender.
In a manner that sounds superficially akin to the sci-fi thrillers of the ’70s, the plot ofMobiusfeatures " a captain consumed by revenge takes his crew on a death mission fueled by his own ego and will to control an enigmatic alien." (Maybe Tilda Swinton can play the captain’s quarry?)
But with Ramsay and Kinnear writing, I don’t expect this to be any sort of average space mission. I hope that Seamus McGarvey, who did such wonderful work on Kevin (and also has his big FX chops down thanks to films like The Avengers) returns to shoot the film. Given that Ramsay hasJanecoming up next, we might not hear any casting info onMobiusfor a while, but I can’t wait to hear who signs on.
