Taxi Driver writer and Auto Focus director Paul Schrader is leaving for Mumbai to write Bollywood action film Extreme City.
According to The Hollywood Reporter , Schrader is finally so sick of Hollywood that he’s decided to take his writing talents elsewhere.
"I've been getting indie movies made for 20 years," he says. "But I take a good look around and what I see is a barren, barren place - in terms of the financial community, in terms of audiences, in terms of distribution. It's cold out there." Ouch.
Cross-cultural tale
City will encompass a cross-cultural story that will find an American man travelling to India to help his father-in-law deal with a kidnapping case, only to fall afoul of a gangster’s plot.
And while he seems delighted to be branching out, Schrader was quick to stress (and likely annoy some of his new host country’s directors) that the film won’t be a “Masala” movie that blends genres to ridiculous effect.
But yes, there will be singing in both English and Hindi. Top that, Scorsese!
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