Joseph Gordon-Levitt had one of his greatest years in 2012 after his involvement in LOOPER and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES and working on his directional debut DON JON, which he also wrote and stars. Previously known as DON JON’S ADDICTION, JGL has announced he’s dropping the “addiction” stating:
I decided to change it, first of all, because DON JON is just so short and simple, and if you know me, you know I’m a fan of brevity. Second of all, it felt to me like the old title, “Don Jon’s Addiction” was throwing some people off a bit from the point of the movie. People were assuming it was a film about porn addiction and sex addiction, which really isn’t true. That’d be sort of like saying “The Maltese Falcon” is a movie about a statue of a falcon. DON JON is a comedy about how men and women treat each other, and how the media we consume can create unrealistic expectations that we put on one another. That’s why the story centers around a relationship between a young man (played by me) who watches too much pornography and a young woman (played by Scarlett) who watches too many romantic Hollywood movies. It’s a topic I personally find fascinating and hilarious.
DON JON is premiering later this year and will be presented at the SXSW festival this weekend. We leave you with the first official production still released today showing JGL and Tony Danza, his screen Dad. Do you think Levitt’s directorial debut will be a hit or a miss? Let us know!
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