Elija could!

Everyones favourite cutie pie hobbit, Elijah Wood, is making his first foray into producing, teaming with Anthony Moody and Rob Malkani's Indalo Prods. to bring to the big screen an adaptation of Elliott Chaze's legendary noir novel "Black Wings Has My Angel."

The story centers on an antihero, an ex-convict, who stages a daring armed car robbery in Colorado with the help of a call girl whom he picked up in a backwoods Mississippi motel

With a script is being penned by Barry Gifford one can expect something of intellegence and originality which excited me greatly.
I love this genre but I haven’t seen noir done well since 1996’s “Bound”, and to a lesser extent “Brick”.

What I love about “Bound” was it was not only (IMHO) the best film the Wachowski brothers have done, it also (with 1994’s “The Last Seduction” before it) it ushered in the new feminist femme fatale, the women who are master minds behind the lipstick and clevage. Noir is one of the few genres in film where women out-smart, out-swindle and out-last the men.

Lets hope Wood continues on this very interesting path he has choosen to follow. More importantly I hope he succeeds at helping create a dark, intellegent and sexy film that does the noir films of the past proud, while opening up the genre to possibilities of the future.

From Variety:

"It's the material," said Wood, summing up why he decided to dip his foot into producing waters. "I've always been intrigued by noir novels and noir films. I love that style. And to unearth something from that era that hasn't been made into a film or is not a remake is really exciting. It's a lost classic."

"Angel" reunites Wood with Indalo, the producers behind his recent "Day Zero," which is set to have its world premiere this month at the Tribeca Film Festival. That experience also helped in his decision to become a producer.

"It's an easy way to cut your teeth when you're going it with someone you're familiar with," he said.

The film is set to lens this year, with MBS Prods. and Amaranth also on board to produce. Wood does not plan to star in the picture, whose casting will get under way shortly.

Wood recently wrapped production on the crime thriller "The Oxford Murders" in London and is lending his voice to the Shane Acker animated film "9."

BOUND (film lesbien)
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