Well, this sounds like a movie that needs to be made immediately.
Vincenzo Natali – director of CUBE and the upcoming SPLICE – spoke with ShockTillYouDrop about what his future potentially holds. Among the projects that he’s interested in realizing is HIGH RISE, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard (CRASH, EMPIRE OF THE SUN).
Here is Amazon’s description of the book: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title — the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control — now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on ‘enemy’ floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for technological mayhem! In this classic visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
If that doesn’t sound like a must-read, and eventually, a must-see, then I don’t know what does!
Natali told Shock the following: “Other filmmakers have attempted to make it and failed. It’s a very frightening, disturbing, transgressive and cool book written by one of my favorite authors. If we can make it, it’ll be incredible. It’s set in this enormous high rise, a vertical city. And it’s about the society that lives in there, this hermetic environment collapses. It’s a dangerous movie and not cheap. Two difficult things to combine.”
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that someone has the balls to get this thing going!
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