Spike Jonze (upcoming Where the Wild Things Are ) has acquired feature rights to Shane Jones' debut novel "Light Boxes" with Ray Tintori attached to direct. "Light Boxes," published earlier this year by Genius Press, is centered on a mysterious town that endures a deadly 1,000-day winter. Tintori's directed numerous music videos plus short films Jettison Your Loved Ones and Death to the Tinman .
- 7/28/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Spike Jonze is giving a fellow music video director his first shot at features.
Variety reports the Being John Malkovich and Where the Wild Things Are helmer, who started his career with videos for Beck and Beastie Boys, has acquired the movie rights to Shane Jones' "Light Boxes". Published earlier this year by Genius Press, the book revolves around a town that endures a 1,000-day-long winter.
Ray Tintori, director of music videos for such acts as Mgmt and The Killers, will make his feature debut with the adaptation of "Light Boxes". He previous credits include the short films Death to the Tinman and Jettison Your Loved Ones, which showed unique visual style and narrative resourcefulness.
The six-minute Jettison Your Loved Ones starts off being about a restless man who repeatedly fakes his own death, but eventually centers around his son, who believes himself to be a time traveler. Tintori...
Variety reports the Being John Malkovich and Where the Wild Things Are helmer, who started his career with videos for Beck and Beastie Boys, has acquired the movie rights to Shane Jones' "Light Boxes". Published earlier this year by Genius Press, the book revolves around a town that endures a 1,000-day-long winter.
Ray Tintori, director of music videos for such acts as Mgmt and The Killers, will make his feature debut with the adaptation of "Light Boxes". He previous credits include the short films Death to the Tinman and Jettison Your Loved Ones, which showed unique visual style and narrative resourcefulness.
The six-minute Jettison Your Loved Ones starts off being about a restless man who repeatedly fakes his own death, but eventually centers around his son, who believes himself to be a time traveler. Tintori...
- 7/28/2009
- CinemaSpy
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