Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard cast in Duncan Jones’ sci-fi movie ‘Mute’
Holy shit. For as long as OL has existed, have I ever been blathering about Duncan Jones’ dream project. The flick? A Blade Runner homage titled Mute. Through the years Jones has gone and done Source Code and Warcraft, and I had sort of written off ever seeing this movie. But! Now! It’s happening, and there are actual cast members.
Filmmaker Duncan Jones burst onto the scene in a big way in 2009 with his sci-fi film “Moon,” and ever since, Jones— who has made “Source Code,” and the upcoming “Warcraft” in the interim— has been talking up a “Blade Runner”-ish sci-fi film called “Mute.” In fact, the film has been in the works for over a decade — Jones recently called the project his “Don Quixote,” a reference to Terry Gilliam’s long-unmade/maybe-never-getting-made “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” — but that’s finally changing.
AFM is in full swing and that means sales, scripts being bought, and actors attaching themselves to projects to entice buyers in global markets. And Jones has now landed two actors for “Mute,” Marvel’s “Ant-Man” star Paul Ruddand Alexander Skarsgard. Lotus Entertainment is behind the project which is set in a tumultuous Berlin, for years from now, overrun by immigrants where a mute bartender encounters an odd pair of American surgeons in his search for his missing love.
Jones and Mike Johnson wrote the screenplay ages ago, and it used to be pretty readily found on the internet (we sure read it back in the day), but there’s no word who’s playing who. Presumably though, Rudd is the mute protagonist and perhaps Skarsgard is the main villain.
“I’ve been working towards making Mute for 12 years now,” Jones told ScreenDaily. “I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that we’re finally going to shoot this utterly unique film. The fact that I get to make it with Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd makes it all the more exciting. Mute is a film that will last. It is unlike any other science fiction being made today.”