Andrew Stanton’s ambitious live action In The Blink Of An Eye is complete, and looking towards a release date later this year.
Andrew Stanton’s (pictured) next film completed principal photography last April, and according to a report over at World Of Reel, the project has now wrapped up post-production work too. The film has now been awarded an MPAA rating of PG-13 for sexual content, thematic material, and some bloody images.
That means that the director behind WALL-E, Finding Nemo and John Carter is almost ready to unveil his next film to the world – and it’s said to be an ambitious one, having started out on the Black List of Hollywood’s promising, unproduced scripts in 2016. The film’s writer is Colby Day, who more recently penned the screenplay for Spaceman, starring Adam Sandler.
So here’s where things get ambitious: as we looked at in a previous exploration on the project: ‘starting with the Big Bang, In The Blink Of An Eye takes place over three intersecting timelines – 45,000 years ago in humanity’s early history; present-day America; and aboard a spacecraft some 200 years in the future. In The Blink Of An Eye gradually draws interconnections and parallels between the three timelines, building a gently philosophical tale about mortality, parenthood and human progress.’
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As you might imagine, comparisons have been drawn with 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar and Cloud Atlas but this project really does have an identity of its own. Last year, the film seemed to be slated for a straight-to-streaming release, being badged as a ‘Hulu Original’ in Disney’s marketing materials promoting upcoming TV projects. However, the MPAA rating now suggests that thankfully, wiser heads have prevailed and the film should be headed to cinemas.
Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs, Jorge Vargas, Tanaya Beatty and Skywalker Hughes star in the film, which will mark Stanton’s return to big screen live action sci-fi for the first time since 2012’s John Carter.
John Carter was a notorious box-office disappointment that was not managed well by Disney throughout production and release, marking out the studio’s increasing willingness to abandon original tentpole filmmaking (albeit a film based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs) in favour of projects with omnipresent pop culture awareness such as Marvel and Star Wars films. Here’s hoping for a better fate for In The Blink Of An Eye.
We’ll bring you a release date for this one when we hear it.
