Nakata Goes English
November 5th, 2008 in Directors, Foreign Language, Horror, Movie News, Screenwriting, The Movie Biz, Thriller -
Hideo Nakata, the Japanese, director of spine tingling horror-thrillers The Ring Two, Ringu and Dark Water, is set to direct Chatroom, a psychological thriller about teenagers who encourage each other’s destructive behavior. Chatroom is Nakata’s first original film in English.
Variety reports that Chatroom was written by Enda Walsh as an adaptation of his own stage play. The Irish playwright won the Cannes Camera d’Or for first film in 2001 with his Disco Pigs and recently penned Steve McQueen’s Hunger.
Filming will begin in the spring in the U.K. I look forward to seeing how Nakata handles the English aspect of filmmaking. He has done awesome work in Japanese and has a strong following.
What a strange combination. the man behind the start of the Asian horror buzz joins up with an Irish playwright, who has a talent for snappy dialogue using regional dialects.
Good point. I haven’t seen “Disco Pigs” which might help understand the relationship working. Hunger, I’d like to read.