According to KFTV:

 “French director Claire Denis’ English-language feature debut, High Life, is set to shoot in Cologne in April.”

Not sure how accurate this is, but I guess time will tell.  It was mentioned earlier that the film would shoot in a studio in Cologne in early 2016.

 

I would have given anything to have seen Rob’s face when he hears/heard that one of his teenage crushes was going to costar with him in a film.  Oh to have been a fly on the wall.  How bloody fantastic is this film cast so far … Patricia Arquette.  Love her.   And we uncovered plot details last week, which seem to be in line with what Screen Daily reports:

“EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner joins sci-fi alongside Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth.

Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) has joined Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and Mia Goth (The Survivalist) in the cast of Claire Denis’ anticipated untitled sci-fi, written by UK novelist Zadie Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.

Denis’ English-language debut, due to shoot next year, is understood to follow a group of skilled criminals who, in a bid to escape their long sentences or capital punishment, accept a likely-fatal government space mission to find alternative energy sources.

The project, which ScreenDaily first reported in June, marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director.

The story is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.

Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.

Alcatraz and Pandora produced Denis’ most recent feature, Bastards, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.

Denis regular Wild Bunch is handling international sales while Des Hamilton is casting the project.

Collaborators on the film also include Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, known for his Tate Modern installation The Weather Project; astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, known for his work on black holes and cosmology; and Stuart Staples of indie band Tindersticks, who previously provided music for Denis titles including White Material and 35 Rhums.”

From The Playlist:

“Oscar winner Patricia Arquette and “Nymphomaniac” star Mia Goth have joined the movie, and now we have an inkling of the plot. According to Screen Daily and Deadline, the story will revolve around a group of skilled criminals who trade in facing jail time and capital punishment for agreeing to participate in a likely fatal government space mission where they will be tasked to find alternate energy sources, and will be part of human reproduction experiments. Holy bonkers. I can’t wait to see what Denis and co. do with that premise.

Production on “High Life” begins in early 2016, and I’d wager a Cannes bow in 2017 is probably likely. It’ll be a long wait….”

 

It’s been a good week for High Life, we posted details about the plot here and now we have a little more thanks to Deadline:

“Mia Goth is set to star opposite Robert Pattinson in High Life, the English-language debut film from director Claire Denis. The movie is about a group of criminals who accept a mission in space to become the subjects of a human reproduction experiment. They find themselves in the most unimaginable situation after a storm of cosmic rays hit the ship.”

Fascinating.  I’m loving these little teases.

Thanks to the sleuthing of bluroblaze on Rob’s IMDb and @RoCp for bringing it to our attention, we have a little more information about High Life.

It looks like Film and Media Foundation NRW awarded 50,000 euro in August to support a movie (in development) called “High Life” by Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Zadie Smith and Nick Laird. According to their press release “Dusseldorf, 03 September 2015. In its 152nd meeting, the Film and Media Foundation NRW promoted 30 projects with EUR 3 million”.  According to @TiramiSue84 the comment on the wikipedia page referred to by bluroblaze mentions “that this particular kind of funding/support is given to producers with completed scripts headed towards start”.

I found this little bit of information on Film and Media Foundation’s website under “In Preparation”:

“Jean-Pol Fargeau, Claire Denis, Zadie Smith and Nick Laird write “High Life”. Looking for alternative energy sources, the government is sending spaceships. Since there is little hope of return, it offers highly qualified inmates to participate in the flight and therefore to circumvent their death sentences and long prison sentences. (Producer: Pandora Film, € 50,000)”

Jesus my anticipation for this film just went up 100 notches.  Not just an astronaut, but a criminal – yeah?

Thanks bluroblaze, RoCp and TiramiSue84 for the team effort 😀

Bliss…

Has been too long since I have shared these beauties…