L.A. Times has an interesting new feature it launched today, “Scriptland,” which follows the work of Hollywood’s best screenwriters. Today the Times discusses “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” scribe Charlie Kaufman’s latest script “Synecdoche, New York.” Casting is in the works and filming is scheduled to begin in next spring.
The Times had this to say about this script,
“Synecdoche” nominally concerns a theater director who thinks he’s dying, and how that shapes his interactions with the world, his art and the women in his life. But it is really a wrenching, searching, metaphysical epic that somehow manages to be universal in an extremely personal way. It’s about death and sex and the vomit-, poop-, urine- and blood-smeared mess that life becomes physiologically, emotionally and spiritually (Page 1 features a 4-year-old girl having her butt wiped). It reliably contains Kaufman’s wondrous visual inventions, complicated characters, idiosyncratic conversations and delightful plot designs, but its collective impact will kick the wind out of you.
Here’s the article.