Tag: Paul Schrader

  • Paul Schrader’s ‘Master Gardener’ provides Quintessa Swindell, Esai Morales to forged

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actors Quintessa Swindell and Esai Morales are the newest to affix the forged of filmmaker Paul Schrader’s upcoming film “Master Gardener”.

    Swindell, recognized for showing in reveals similar to “Euphoria” and “In Treatment”, and “Ozark” actor Morales can be that includes alongside Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton within the film, reported Variety.

    Schrader, who most not too long ago directed “The Card Counter”, will write and direct the brand new film, which began manufacturing on Thursday in Louisiana.

    The story revolves round Narvel Roth (Edgerton), a horticulturist who tends to a good looking and historic property owned by rich dowager Mrs Haverhill (Weaver).

    But Mrs Haverhill’s insistence that Roth make use of her wayward great-niece Maya as an apprentice unexpectedly sends his life into chaos as darkish secrets and techniques from his previous emerge and threaten to capsize all who dwell and work at Gracewood Gardens.

    Swindell will play Maya, Mrs Haverhill’s troubled great-niece whereas Morales takes on the position of Roth’s witness safety officer.

    Amanda Crittenden of KOJO Studios and Scott LaStaiti are producing along with David Gonzales, Schrader’s supervisor.

    Luisa Law, Linda Ujuk and Dale Roberts are govt producers.

    Swindell will subsequent star in Dwayne Johnson’s DC film “Black Adam”, set for launch worldwide in July this 12 months.

    Morales can be seen in Tom Cruise-starrer “Mission: Impossible 7”.

  • Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader engaged on collection about origins of Christianity

    Director Martin Scorsese and writer-filmmaker Paul Schrader, who’ve labored collectively on iconic movies like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, are reuniting for a streaming collection concerning the origins of Christianity.
    Schrader spoke concerning the collection throughout a brand new interview with critic Richard Brody of The New Yorker, reported IndieWire. Scorsese had final labored with Netflix for his Oscar-nominated movie The Irishman and when requested within the interview whether or not Schrader had ever considered making a streaming present, the stated it’s already within the works.
    “Yeah. Well, Scorsese and I are planning something,” the First Reformed director stated. “And it is… it would be a three-year series about the origins of Christianity,” he stated.
    Schrader teased that the collection relies on the Apostles and on the Apocrypha.

    “It’s called The Apostles and Apocrypha. Because people sort of know the New Testament, but nobody knows the Apocrypha. And back in the first century, there was no New Testament, there’s just these stories. And some were true, and some weren’t, and some were forgeries,” he stated.
    When requested by The New Yorker if the collection could be dramatized within the vein of their movie The Last Temptation of Christ, Schrader answered, “Yes.”
    Scorsese is presently busy filming his upcoming Western drama Killers of the Flower Moon, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, Lily Gladstone, amongst others whereas Schrader has accomplished The Card Counter.