Joaquin Phoenix: After Joker 2, His Next Movie Will Be ‘Rosemary’s Baby In The Arctic’

With four feature films under his belt in a quarter of a century, Lynn Ramsey is a rare filmmaker. Whose career could have ended when she left the western Jane received a gun on the first day of filming. But no.

Because since then he filmed “A Beautiful Day” with Joaquin Phoenix, which won a double award at Cannes in 2017 (Best Actor and Screenplay) and has no shortage of projects.

Among them, Die, My Love with Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence, has already been filmed and is expected to be in Cannes or Venice next year. Mattress of Stone, a revenge story with Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh, inspired by a Margaret Atwood short story (The Handmaid’s Tale) and is being scouted for location.

and Polaris (sometimes called the Dark Sides), marking her reunion with Joaquin Phoenix.

The horror film, which several media outlets had announced would shoot in late summer 2023, is not the case. It’s a long shot because the stone mattress seems to be done early.

But it is still relevant today and its director describes it as a “Rosemary’s Baby in the arctic” Mixed with Moby Dick, in which Joaquin Phoenix (along with Rooney Mara) will play an Ahab-like character.

according to Another magazineThe story is set at the turn of the 20th century and incorporates dark environmental themes into the whale story that Lynn Ramsay has been thinking about for years. One who has been thinking about creating an SF version of Moby Dick for some time.

“I’ve always been fascinated by whales”

“I’ve always been fascinated by whales – they’re so beautiful and mysterious”explains the film director. “I read Moby Dick when I was 17 or 18 and I couldn’t get into the old language of it. I loved it. DostoevskyBut it was easier to read. A few years later I gave Moby Dick another chance and then, damn it, I realized it was biblical.

And all indications are that Polaris will be, for Lynne Ramsay, a way to channel that obsession on screen. The good news is that it is very attractive. The bad news is that we still don’t know when we’ll see this movie.