According to USA Today,
the festival’s director Thierry Frémaux announced the Disney/Spielberg
collaboration will join 48 other movies at the event, which will take
place in the South of France on May 11-22. The top prize, the Palme
d’Or, will be awarded to one of 20 nominated films, Frémaux announced
during the press conference on Thursday.
“E.T.” director and former CSULB alumnus
Spielberg is no stranger to multitasking. While gearing up for Cannes,
he and Dreamworks will begin the process of producing “The Voyeur’s
Motel,” a film based on a book by Gay Talese that will be published this summer, Collider
reported. Sam Mendes (“Skyfall”) will direct the movie, which tells the
story of Gerald Foos, who spent 35 years spying on his motel guests and
passing the information on to Talese.
Spielberg may also bring Oscar winner Mark Rylance (“Bridge
of Spies”) on to another project “Ready Play One,” should the actor make
time in his schedule, according to Deadline.
Rylance would be entering a futuristic story – based on Ernest Cline’s
book and slated for theaters on March 30, 2018 – about a virtual reality
game creator who will hand over his company to the player who discovers
an Easter egg in his game OASIS. Using clues from 1980s pop culture,
the player will need to keep their avatars alive in order to win the
hefty prize.
Rylance is no stranger to Spielberg. The two will also work
together in another book-to-film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner
David Kertzer’s “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,” Deadline also
reported. Rylance is additionally the title character in “The BFG.”
Short for Big Friendly Giant, “The BFG”
is a fantasy film about a friendship between a girl and a giant who,
unlike his kind, does not eat boys and girls. Also starring Rebecca Hall
and Bill Hader, look for the film in theaters beginning July 1.
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