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Vincenzo Natali Still to Direct High-Rise?
Author: Simon Sellars • Feb 28th, 2006 •Category: Ballardosphere, film
Vincenzo Natali’s working on a script of High-Rise. It’s old news, I know, seeing as though it was announced mid-2005, but we haven’t heard anything since. I wonder if it’s still going ahead…
When I saw Natali’s Cube it struck me that he might well be the right man to film High Rise. The existential concept of a group of strangers forming uneasy alliances with each other to fight a vague technological force at the edge of consciousness seemed to be very Ballardian indeed.
Here’s how Natali describes the project:
“I’ve been working on the script for the last year and it seems to be coming together quite well. The easiest way to describe it is Lord of the Flies in a high-tech high-rise. I’m trying to be faithful to the tone and theme of Ballard’s book, but I am updating it slightly to make it more contemporary. I don’t have a start date, but we are talking about doing it next year.”
Over at the JGB Mailing List, David Pringle writes:
“Lord, how many times have we heard about forthcoming film adaptations of High-Rise? Over the past 30 years, it seems to have been through loads of scripts and loads of putative directors — beginning, if I remember rightly, with a script by Paul Mayersberg which was slated to be directed by Nicolas Roeg. Will this latest attempt come to fruition? I won’t count on it until it hits the screen.”
And this from the Ballardian forum: “i think Jeremy Thomas and Gabriella Martinelli own all ballard’s novels’ rights for film adaptations”.
Can’t wait to see the opening scene: Laing eating the dog on his balcony, as he surveys the ruins of his world.
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I think David Fincher should have directed it right after “Fight Club”.
I disagree. ‘Fight Club’ was great, but a subtler hand is needed. Apparently Nic Roeg was slated to do High Rise in the 70s…ah, what a dream…
I’ve imagined such a film since not leaving the house one day to read High Rise through to it’s completion. What a book! Please spare no details when Wilder meets his end on the roof tops
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