These 2 have finally got back together to do a film together, ten years after Adaptation. Apparently the film is already in post-production but has yet to be named. The cast looks pretty great though, Amy Adams, Samantha Morton, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Joaquin Phoenix. The only real details of the film seems to be that Phoenix's character falls in love with the voice on his computer and everything spins from there.
Don't let the premise turn you off, Spike Jonze has proven in the past that he can make incredibly enjoyable movies out of the simplest of narratives, there were only 338 words in Where the Wild Things Are and he managed an incredibly enjoyable 101 minute film out of it. While Jonze's career has been made up mostly music videos, shorts, and video documentaries, his films like Being John Malkovich have attained a bit of a cult status. He's also know for films he's turned down directing, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Human Nature, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Synedoche, NY.
Spike Jonze's has seemed to live a bit of a charmed life and may rank as one of the cooler people on the planet. He came up directing skate videos and working for the Beastie Boy's Grand Royal Magazine as well as directing their video for Sabotage. Besides dating Michelle Williams he was also Francis Ford Coppola's son-in-law for 4 years. He stole every scene he was in in Three Kings as an actor, and still pops up in film and TV roles, not to mention creating Jackass for MTV and his work with the Torrance Community Dance Group. The guy has just excelled in every medium he has worked in, not bad for a kid from Rockville, MD.
The last couple years he's mainly been directing videos for band across the board from the Beastie Boys to Arcade Fire, Kayne to Bjork, let's hope this new film brings a return to full length movies.
Oh, and when he was 22 he did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7z57qrZU8
And this crazy Adidas Commercial, the music produced by his DJ brother and sung by his then girlfriend, the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wk7wYqfJn8
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