Alexander Payne touched down at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Sunday where he shed some light on his next project – a Western which will reunite the writer-director with The Holdovers scribe David Hemingson.
Speaking at a masterclass at the Bosnian Cultural Center, Payne, whose last project The Holdovers earned five Oscar nominations, told the audience that he wanted to explore different genres from the types of films he has made so far. “The one genre I’ve wanted to do is a Western,” said Payne. “So, right now while Jim [Taylor] and I are talking about a sequel to Election, with a different writer – the guy who wrote The Holdovers [David Hemingson], we have been conceiving a Western for years now.” He added: “It would be nice to take a kind of realistic-slash-naturalistic approach to a Western and also using landscape.
In as much as sense of place is important…part of my interest is having even greater dramatic, archetypical interplay between character and landscape.
I think it’s really interesting. Also, I’d like to do a good car chase film.” Payne said he’d been inspired by the work of U.S.
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