With the new Captain Marvel trailer set to be released today, everybody else with Brie Larson-related news can enjoy a nice Captain Marvel bump on Google (it’s called “good SEO” in the biz), which is probably why Deadline is reporting that Larson is going to star in I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, the movie that Charlie Kaufman is directing for Netflix. Kaufman will also be writing the screenplay, which is adapted from Ian Reid’s 2016 novel of the same name and centers on a guy and his girlfriend who are on a road trip to the guy’s parents’ secluded farm. Unfortunately, the girl (Larson) is thinking of breaking up with the guy—which is to say that she’s Thinking Of Ending Things—and an “unexpected detour” leaves her stranded and terrified. It sounds like the story is a bit more overtly spooky than most Charlie Kaufman movies, but with the specific psychological angle we’ve all come to expect from a Charlie Kaufman movie.
Now let’s just talk about Captain Marvel a little more so we can get some of that good SEO for ourselves. The Skrulls are in Captain Marvel, huh? Pretty wild.
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I’ll take spooky Kaufman over “life is meaningless and then you die” Kaufman.
The spooky twist is that life is meaningless and then you die!
“The feeling of existential terror is coming from inside yourself!”
Synecdoche, New York was originally pitched as a horror movie. Nothing is scarier to Charlie Kaufman than “life is meaningless and then you die.”
That movie really could have used Donald Kaufman’s input.
It was pretty damn horrifying by the end.
Based on what I know of this book chances are pretty good we’re getting both.
You’ll take this Kaufman and like it!
Tank you verymuch.
Who cares what she’s gonna do?I care about what she’s already done. They just showed the trailer on Monday Night Football and IT WAS GLORIOUS!
Who cares what she’s gonna do?I care about what she’s already done. They just showed the trailer on Monday Night Football and IT WAS GLORIOUS!as I believe they say on the intraweb: “FTFY”.
If you don’t care just don’t comment
“If the movie stinks, just don’t go!”
That’s not really the same thing. Talking about a movie you didn’t like is one thing, making a performative display about how much you TOTALLY DON’T CARE LOOK AT ME is just dumb.
It’s going to turn out that the guy, the girlfriend, and the parents were all the same person. I assume it’s going to be accomplished through trick photography.
As long as the theme of machine vs. horse comes through, I’ll be happy.
… based on the original work of Sigmund Freud.
Lol did you read the book? Sorry to “spoil” it, but that’s literally the plot. It’s BAD.
The book had its moments but I wasn’t entirely convinced by where it all went by the end. Charlie Kaufman being attached to this is probably the best sign for an adaptation I could hope for.
In hopes that “adaptation” means he makes himself a character and completely changes the source material.
Charlie Kaufman + Brie Larson = definitely gonna see this movie
Yay, I’ve missed me some good Kaufmania.
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