While promoting his work on David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, legendary screenwriter Steven Zaillian has spoken about what could be his next project – and one which he says could be directed by himself. The SCHINDLER’S LIST scribe is working on an English-language remake of cult Spanish sci-fi-thriller TIMECRIMES. Zaillian spoke about his hope to make it the way he wants, without the need for a huge budget:-
That’s something I might direct but I don’t know. We have to cast it, but it’s a tricky one, because I want to make it really low budget. I don’t want to do a really big budgeted film for that. I think part of its appeal is that it’s kind of a low budget thriller, but it’s even hard to get that made without a major actor, so the trick is to find the right actor that doesn’t suddenly push the budget up into the 20s or 30s. I’d like to make it for 10 million bucks. You look at it and it’s one of the rare opportunities where you have four characters, two locations, why do you need to spend $40 million dollars? This is a gift, this is a story that you wouldn’t want to tell any differently, and it happens to be an economical way to go.
Source: Edward Douglas
