"Oh, it's an oversubscribed year. I hadn't planned it like this. I also directed a new movie this year that I wrote that I'm finishing right now. The romantic prison drama "The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd," starring Amanda Seyfried? Yes. The performances by Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy are extraordinary. It's an ambitious movie. It's not finished. We've locked picture, but we have a lot of work to do: sound and score and VFX. We'll try to sell it next year."
"I started writing "Superhero" in 2022. I like the way my wife describes it, because I think she's right: "City of Blows" was in large part about the venality of the movie industry, whereas so much of "Superhero" is about what I love. It celebrates at the same time, even in its most ridiculously true moments that expose how myopic and selfish we"
Tim Blake Nelson, 61, is known for roles in Coen brothers films such as "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". He appears in Vincent Grashaw's boxing indie "Bang Bang", FX's series "The Lowdown", and published the novel "Superhero" (Nov. 4). He directed and is finishing the romantic prison drama "The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd", starring Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy; picture is locked but sound, score, and VFX remain before seeking distribution next year. He also staged the dystopian play "And Then We Were No More" at La Mama. He began writing "Superhero" in 2022; "City of Blows" examined industry venality, while "Superhero" celebrates what he loves even as it exposes myopic, selfish behavior.
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