Viggo Mortensen Talks Next Directorial Project After Western ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: ‘I Won’t Make a Movie Unless I Have Final Cut’
variety.comMarta Balaga Viggo Mortensen is eyeing his next directorial project. “It’s only indigenous languages, it has no white characters and there will be no movie stars – just lots and lots of horses.
But I am convinced it will have wide appeal, because it’s a universal coming-of-age story about an adolescent boy,” he tells Variety.
The “Lord of the Rings” alumnus, who wrote the script for his next project “many years ago,” has been hoping to bring it to screen even before he made his directorial debut with “Falling” in 2020.
Three years later, he completed his second film as director, Western “The Dead Don’t Hurt” – selected as this year’s opener of Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where Mortensen is set to pick up the Festival President’s Award. “I thought: ‘I’ll make ‘Falling’ and prove to everyone I can direct.’ But I still couldn’t get this one made, so I went: ‘Well, I’ll make ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ and that will prove I can work with these landscapes, and horses.’ Apparently, it’s not enough,” he laughs. “The people who put up money are very conservative.
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