After the success of Elvisthe filmmaker Baz Luhrmann He already has his next project in hand: a film about Joan of Arc. To this end and given the good results of her previous musical biopic, Warner Bros. will once again sponsor her performance as narrator in a story that does not yet have its most visible face, even if the networks and some international media are already talking about names. like Jenna Ortega. But regardless of the woman who takes on the role of the young heroine of FranceWhat seems clear is that the Australian director’s unmistakable ornate style will give us a deeply postmodern portrait. Just like he did with other classics like Romeo and Juliet either The Great Gatsby.
According to the main information, the film should be titled Jeanne either Joan of Arc. Right now since major They have not commented on this and in principle it seems that she will make it completely official when she has definitively chosen the face that will assume the boss of the French country. The casting announcement indicates that the proposal will focus on the search for the young woman who will play the main role. “the definitive coming-of-age story of a teenage girl, set during the Hundred Years’ War.” The rumor surrounding Ortega’s presence stems from a recent interview during the promotion Bitelchus Bitelchuswhere the actress stressed that Joan of Arc was one of her dream roles. If we add to this the fact that Tim Burton’s sequel also belongs to the same major…maybe the star of Wednesday has already found its new and important role. The one which, by the way, would be his first major leading role in a blockbuster and a likely future Oscar nomination.
Joan of Arc is a real challenge
Since his journey through the life and work of the King of Rock, Baz Luhrmann has been somewhat occupied with re-editing his film Australia (2008), re-editing it for a mini-series version arriving this year on Disney+, under the title label Australia: Farraway Downs. However, you will now be faced with a major challenge. Because, if capturing the virtues and flaws of Elvis involved humanizing a divine icon of North American culture, with Joan of Arc this performance will be even greater and above all, much more risky for a voice as personal as that of the director of Rogue Mill.
In addition to the historical value, Luhrmann will have to contend with the character’s cinematic background. Joan of Arc is not only an important figure in the history of humanity, but her representation is also part of the primary artistic value of the seventh art. Well, among all the adaptations that have been made of the saint, masterpieces like The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Joan of Arc (1948) by Robert Bresson.
Baz Luhrmann’s Rising Career
Baz Luhrmann wears over 30 years film director, but the Sydney-based director has never been in a hurry to develop his big narrative bets. Thus, since his debut with love is in the air Four years have passed since the premiere of his version of Romeo and Juliet and so it would take him another five years to film his Oscar-winning musical, Moulin Rogue. A pace of time that he maintained throughout his filmography and that he even surpassed after the musical with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, since it was only created seven years later. Australia. immersed in the already cancelled The descentLuhrmann took almost a decade returning to celluloid between the screening of The Great Gatsby And Elvis. We will therefore probably have to be patient to see his adaptation of Joan of Arc, since it might not hit theaters until at least 2027.
Baz Luhrmann’s partnership with Warner was fruitful for both. Here are the numbers for your adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with $351 million collected worldwide. Elvis did not reach these numbers, but he achieved fantastic results 286 million dollars that started from a much lower budget than the film with Leonardo DiCaprio. In addition, the film directed by Austin Butler gave the director an Oscar nomination for best picture and seven other technical and artistic considerations on the 2023 red carpet, equivalent to the number of categories reached in 2002 with Rogue MillThematically, the upcoming adaptation of Joan of Arc will struggle to reach those numbers, but it will surely incorporate an ornate set design that will make something of it. much more “marketable” for the general public.
