A little bit more drip-feed about the Wachowski’s next movie project which now has a proper title and no longer has to be referred to as that ‘hard-R, cinema verite-style, Iraq War set gay love story between an American and Iraqi soldier told from the near future.’
Cobalt Neural 9, as the movie is now called, is at the casting stage and Deadline has a piece about how agents and reps aren’t happy that their precious clients are being asked to go up for a movie part without being given a full script and about which so little is known.
I don’t see what all the fuss is about – surely when you reach the kind of status that the Wachowskis have you’ve earned the right to be protective and secretive about your new film. And how many agents seriously read a script from front to back and advise their hot property on the basis of the writing? I doubt many in the business would have been able to visualise the first Matrix movie after reading it in 90 black and white pages.
Personally I think the Wachowskis should never actually make the movie, rather just keep on releasing tantalising tidbits to whet our appetite and leave it to our own imagination – could the finished movie ever be as interesting? Find out in 2012.



