简介：Kornél Mundruczó reveals that his previously announced adaptation of “The Elephant Man,” initially revealed in 2019, may be revived.
“I just heard back that the project wants to go on again. That’s crazy. It’s also a love story,” he says. Initially, Mundruczó wanted to do the film with Adam Pearson and Margaret Qualley. “At that time, Margaret really was not a huge star, but I fell in love with in her, with her talent, and that was our cast, and that was un-financeable at that time. It was simply the budget not coming together, because authenticity was not a topic at that time and these days authenticity is everything.”
Mundruczó’s vision for “The Elephant Man” differs significantly from David Lynch’s classic.
“[It’s a] very different take than the Lynch movie, which is dark, Victorian, black and white. Ours is a colorful summer story with a lot of cherries and cherry tree blossoming, cherry tree flowers all over,” he says. “The visual will be a very different take, very like a celebration of life and otherness.”
