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  • Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

    Seriously, does anyone know what the hell Charlie Kaufman has been doing since Synecdoche came out? It's been 2 freaking years!!!! Not the tiniest of blips on the media radar has come out as to what in the hell Kaufman has been doing. Is he writing something? Is he done? Is he just smoking a lot of pot?

    Does anyone know? Or did he get lost inside a theater he created of his life? Maybe killed when his identical twin got his nose into the business the illegal flowers trade?

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    Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

    According to IMDBPro he's doing revisions on KUNG-FU PANDA 2.

    Dude deserves a rest though, directing SYNECDOCHE was a hell of an achievement and surely took a lot out of him.

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    • #3
      Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

      Originally posted by ihavebiglips View Post
      According to IMDBPro he's doing revisions on KUNG-FU PANDA 2.

      Dude deserves a rest though, directing SYNECDOCHE was a hell of an achievement and surely took a lot out of him.
      That would give me a reason to see Kung Fu Panda.

      But 2 freaking YEARS!!!! He's in Kubrick territory with this downtime. You'd think he'd at least have another movie in development as it'd take two or three years more to get one made.

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      • #4
        Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

        You do realize that there was a four year gap between ETERNAL SUNSHINE and SYNECDOCHE, right? And a two year gap between ADAPTATION and ETERNAL SUNSHINE.

        Add to that the fact that he's never had a breakthrough box office hit, SYNECDOCHE being one of his biggest failures to date, and this gap isn't that hard to understand.

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        • #5
          Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

          like most writers in between the published gaps... he is probably writing stuff that gets passed over...
          "you have to write right, right?" -- Todd Gordon

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            Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

            Originally posted by Moviequill View Post
            like most writers in between the published gaps... he is probably writing stuff that gets passed over...
            Or enjoying his millions and traveling the world. Wouldn't you?
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            • #7
              Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

              Or spending his millions on incompetent and unnecessary psychoanalysis in a failed attempt to "deal" with all of his well-founded existential neuroses.

              That's what I'd be doing, at least.

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                Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                Fighting crime.
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                • #9
                  Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                  He said in a September 2009 interview he cannot do any more movies, and intends to go to NYC to write for theater. (I can't find the link in Google, so if anyone can find it, cool.)

                  Sorry for the bad news. He must be going through a rebuilding phase, as Synechdoche was a financial catastrophe for the brave studio that greenlit it. If he puts a play on off Broadway, I'll go see it!
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                  • #10
                    Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                    I just think he got stuck in an unending conversation with his own psyche.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                      Originally posted by nathanq
                      Hopefully Synecdoche, NY does well in DVD sales so he gets a better chance.
                      Came out over a year ago on DVD, landed at #48 first week - which is off the charts (they end at 30 on The Numbers Chart)... and the 30th film for that week (I just checked) did $500k in sales & rentals. So if I were Charlie I'd be writing some specs to restart the career... or get on some sitcom staff (what he did before MALKOVICH).

                      Because the indie world has changed, he should consider making his own films on a limited budget (maybe $1.5m) that matches the audience for his films. The whole problem with the "studio indie" thing is that small films got too big... and when the bubble burst, there was no way one of those film could do anything other than lose money. The same films made on a pre-Miramax indie budget make a profit.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                        Originally posted by Mario_C View Post
                        He said in a September 2009 interview he cannot do any more movies, and intends to go to NYC to write for theater. (I can't find the link in Google, so if anyone can find it, cool.)

                        Sorry for the bad news. He must be going through a rebuilding phase, as Synechdoche was a financial catastrophe for the brave studio that greenlit it. If he puts a play on off Broadway, I'll go see it!

                        Oh, he'll be back. People act like he's not writing 15 brilliant pieces of work about failing fantastically on such a grand level. I mean, his greatest work is his greatest failure, which is Adaptation. I loved Synechdoche, NY, but he was successful in making what he wanted to make. Problem was, mainstream audiences didn't want to see it. Don't think that will stop him from returning to film in some fashion, even if other people are adapting his plays into movies.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                          Last I read he was getting interesting in television. He was considering the possibilities of starting his own project or miniseries. I believe he referenced Twin Peaks.

                          Anyone have a source on this? I don't remember where I read it.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                            From what I know he's working on a spec about some writer that gets fired from his job and meets an escort who he helps run an escort business on the Strip in Vegas. Supposedly it's dark and funny, but with a heart. A real portrayal of post-recession Vegas. But that could be wrong, but that's what I was told. Sounds good though.

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                              Re: Can someone tell me what the F**k has Charlie Kaufman been up to?

                              Originally posted by dog678 View Post
                              From what I know he's working on a spec about some writer that gets fired from his job and meets an escort who he helps run an escort business on the Strip in Vegas. Supposedly it's dark and funny, but with a heart. A real portrayal of post-recession Vegas. But that could be wrong, but that's what I was told. Sounds good though.
                              I haven't heard anything on that, and don't think that Kaufman would be doing something on spec given what his career has built up to (despite the financial disappointment of Synecdoche). Do you have some kind of source on this? Because I haven't been able to find anything close to that (doesn't really sound like Kaufman's surreal work anyway).

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