Studio:
Unknown.
Production Company:
Single Cell Features/Propaganda Films.
Project Phase: Greenlighted.
Who's In It:
John Cusack (Craig Schwartz); Cameron Diaz (Lotte Schwartz); John Malkovich (Himself);
Orson Bean (Dr. Lester); W. Earl Brown (Erroll); Catherine Keener (Maxine Lund);
Mary Kay Place (Floris).
Who's Making It:
Spike Jonze (Director); Charlie Kaufman (Screenwriter); Steve Golin, Vincent Landay
(Producers); Sandy Stern, Michael Stipe (Executive Producers); Lance Acord
(Director of Photography); Casey Storm (Costume Designer); K.K. Barrett (Production
Designer); Eric Zumbrunnen (Editor); Peter Andrus (Art Director).
Premise: A puppeteer discovers he can control the actor John Malkovich for fifteen minute periods. Must be a neat party trick.
Release Date: Spring 1999.
Comments: None.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
[Page draft submitted by 'Widgett'.]
December 1, 1998... John Cusack plays the role of the puppeteer and Diaz is his wife. Keener plays a love interest of both Malkovich and Cusack. Bean is Cusack's boss. In what's being touted as the casting coup of recent months, Malkovich will be playing himself. But think about it--who else would you cast? This marks Jonze's first feature film and camera reportedly began rolling in late July. [Info originally appeared in IMDB, Cinematter, Empire, Cinescape Online, John Cusack Fan Page; reported by Widgett.]