(((shadowplay)))

This is the way, step inside.

Homina homina homina....

From neworderonline.com:

Sam Riley has been cast as lead singer Ian Curtis and Alexandra Maria Lara as his lover Annik on music video director Anton Corbijn’s Control, his fact-based debut feature on UK post-punk band Joy Division.

It is a first big role for newcomer Riley – the troubled Curtis was in his early 20s when he committed suicide in 1980 – whereas Lara played Hitler’s secretary in Downfall and has just finished work on Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth By Youth alongside Bruno Ganz and Tim Roth.

It was already known that Samantha Morton would play Deborah Curtis, who wrote the book on which Matt Greenhalgh’s script is based. Curtis will also get a co-producer credit, as will former Joy Division manager and Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, the subject of the biopic 24 Hour Party People. The producers are Orian Williams and Todd Eckert from Claraflora.

The Control team is still closing finance but hopes to being shooting in mid-2006 in Manchester, Macclesfield and other areas of England.

The film’s title was inspired by the classic Joy Division song She’s Lost Control.
New Order, the band that succeeded Joy Division, will be recording new tracks
for the film and the soundtrack album will feature a number of re-recorded Joy
Division songs.

Now I can take Anton Corbijn or leave him, but the fact is that he was in the Manchester scene when Joy Division took off. A script based on Deborah Curtis's Touching from a Distance, filmed by someone who knew everyone involved in the band, and also produced by eternal finger-in-every-pie guy Tony Wilson, with the remaining members of the band doing the soundtrack...it may end up boring as hell for most, but I'll be entranced (I'm sure), and with Corbijn filming, it'll be gorgeous. Probably.

I'm not sure if Corbijn's ever done anything more than music videos and concert films (and photography, but that's not the point), so this could end up a trainwreck. An incredibly beautiful trainwreck, but a trainwreck nonetheless.

posted by Bill @ 8:01 PM