Derek Cianfrance discusses his new project The Place Beyond the Pines
"The next film I'm making is called The Place Beyond the Pines, which we'll shoot this summer. We're just locking up all our financing right now. It's a film about fathers and sons. It deals a lot with ancestry. Ryan Gosling is going to play a motorcycle stunt rider who comes back to the town of Schenectady to find out he has a young son from this one-night stand. He has to choose whether he's going to be a father, or whether he's going to be a motorcycle stunt rider. It's kind of a crime movie and it takes place over a couple of generations, and it's definitely very epic in scope. I'm super pumped about doing it."
The director also talked a bit about the crime element in The Place Beyond the Pines, and how this movie wraps up a "trilogy" of sorts, which started with his feature debut, Brother Tied.
"It's going to kind of end like a family trilogy I've been working on, from Brother Tied, which is about brothers, Blue Valentine is about husbands and wives, and this is about fathers and sons. At the same time, there are guns in the new one. I remember shooting Blue Valentine, that scene at the end of the film with Dean and Cindy in the kitchen and it was so emotional, so painful, and so difficult to get to that moment, I thought, 'This is why people put guns in movies.' Emotional violence is more difficult to get to. At the same time, when you put guns in movies, people shoot like 10,000 bullets. In The Place Beyond the Pines, there are two bullets that get shot. When the bullets get fired, they do damage. It's going to hurt."
The Place Beyond the Pines is aiming for a summer shoot, once financing gets fully secured. Our report from last week also indicated that Bradley Cooper has been offered the role of a rookie cop who sparks a feud with Ryan Gosling's character. It isn't known if Bradley Cooper has accepted the role yet.
Be sure to check back for my full interview with Derek Cianfrance about Blue Valentine, which arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on May 10.
The Place Beyond the Pines comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Greta Gerwig, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Ben Mendelsohn, Dane DeHaan. The film is directed by Derek Cianfrance.
Blue Valentine was released December 29th, 2010 and stars Mike Vogel, Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Ben Shenkman, John Doman, Reila Aphrodite, Maryann Plunkett, Faith Wladyka. The film is directed by Derek Cianfrance.
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thedude-abides
@gallagher That's music to my ears considering I'm the world's slowest reader. 20 pages an hour is all I can manage, so a 150 page book isn't much of a commitment. Thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure and check it out.
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Brian Gallagher
@thedude-abides You should check out the Drive book. It's by James Sallis and a nice little piece of short fiction, about 150 pages if I remember right.
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thedude-abides
@gallagher Yeah, both sound really good. I'm looking forward to seeing what both directors have in store.
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Brian Gallagher
As far as THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, this also sounds very, very cool. Can't wait to see how this comes together.
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Brian Gallagher
@thedude-abides I've read the DRIVE book, and it's a damn good read. We'll have to see about the movie, but with Gosling and Winding-Refn, I'll give it a shot.
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skywise
This should be a good movie. Its going to b e bizarre but i cant wait.
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thedude-abides
As far as Gosling's 2 stunt driver movies go, I'd have to say this sounds like the better of the 2.
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