Page 1 of 14
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 3:15 pm
by mfunk9786
In a brief video message posted to his Facebook page, von Trier has announced that principal photography on his TV series, The House that Jack Built, will begin in autumn 2016.
Re: Lars von Trier
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 2:57 am
by mfunk9786
Von Trier has posted on his official Facebook page that as of today, the script for The House that Jack Built is final, but it will be his next theatrical film, not a TV miniseries. Out in 2018.
Re: Lars von Trier
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 2:30 am
by domino harvey
USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork. Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and psychopathic explanations. The House That Jack Built is a dark and sinister story, yet presented through a philosophical and occasional humorous tale.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:04 am
by dda1996a
Consider me in. I disliked everything post Dogville but this sounds interesting. Wonder how similar to Angst or Henry it might turn out
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:00 am
by djproject
Based on the synopsis, it could *almost* pass for a substitute to the never realised *Wasington* and thus completing at long last his "USA - Land of Opportunities" Trilogy.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:40 pm
by carmilla mircalla
djproject wrote:Based on the synopsis, it could *almost* pass for a substitute to the never realised *Wasington* and thus completing at long last his "USA - Land of Opportunities" Trilogy.
Which by the way I never could find anything about why it was scrapped and what it was even supposed to be about. Anyone have any details?
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 2:57 pm
by djproject
carmilla mircalla wrote:djproject wrote:Based on the synopsis, it could *almost* pass for a substitute to the never realised *Wasington* and thus completing at long last his "USA - Land of Opportunities" Trilogy.
Which by the way I never could find anything about why it was scrapped and what it was even supposed to be about. Anyone have any details?
This was the only article I could find and this was over four years ago (and, of course, a lot has changed). His intense depressive episode back in the late 2000s may have derailed the project.
My guess was "Wasington" could have been a political critique since Dogville could be seen as an economic critique and Manderlay can be seen as a social critique.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:51 pm
by Zot!
There you go...Ive also heard him mention that he felt he wasnt mature enough to do Wasington. I doubt he will circle around again.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:00 pm
by Grand Wazoo
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:44 pm
by mfunk9786
Yawn! I think we all saw both of those casting choices coming.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:30 pm
by JabbaTheSlut
mfunk9786 wrote:Yawn! I think we all saw both of those casting choices coming.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 3:54 pm
by mfunk9786
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 4:06 pm
by domino harvey
[Muffled Tim Allen grunt playing in the distance]
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 4:18 pm
by swo17
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:42 pm
by aox
Yeah, I really wish he would make Washington.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:46 pm
by mfunk9786
*Wasington
Re: Lars von Trier
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:26 pm
by FrauBlucher
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:06 pm
by mfunk9786
I'm hoping that this is all building to a LvT film with Uma Thurman in the lead.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:15 pm
by domino harvey
She was the lead of the best part of Nymph()maniac, really
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:19 pm
by colinr0380
Even the other cast members in that piece are exciting - Siobhan Fallon Hogan of course has previous form in
leading Selma to her death in Dancer In The Dark, Sofie Gråbøl was the lead in the original Danish version of
The Killing and Riley Keough was recently in both American Honey and Mad Max: Fury Road!
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 6:31 pm
by The Narrator Returns
Keough was also terrific on the TV "adaptation" of The Girlfriend Experience.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:27 am
by Zot!
Hope this turns out better than I Come With The Rain.
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:49 pm
by Clarence
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:23 pm
by Peter-H
New Pics
Also an interesting story tidbit: "Jack is trying to create the ultimate art work: A collection of all his killings manifested in a House that he builds."
Re: The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:33 pm
by Werewolf by Night
Peter-H wrote:"Jack is trying to create the ultimate art work: A collection of all his killings manifested in a House that he builds."
