Ever since Brady Corbet mentioned in 2016 that Rob was involved with Mona Fastvold’s next movie “The Bleaching Yard”, very little information was forthcoming. Now thanks to Variety we know why:

For a long time Fastvold worked on a project based on the Norwegian novel “The Bleaching Yard,” which, despite having various cast attached to it, kept falling apart, which she attributes to financing.

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After financing on “The Bleaching Yard” project fell through for the third time, Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen’s script for “The World to Come” (based on Shepard’s short story) was directed her way by Whitaker Lader – a producer at Sea Change Media, which she co-owns with Casey Affleck (who also stars in the film with Christopher Abbott).

Hopefully this may be a passion project that Rob will pitch to Warners/HBO Max. Meanwhile, Mona and Brady are working on their next collaboration “The Brutalist” which may start filming this year and stars Joel Edgerton, Marion Cottilard and Mark Rylance. One wonders if Rob might have a cameo in that film.