{"id":18932,"date":"2023-09-11T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T23:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=18932"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:35:22","slug":"todd-haynes-says-new-gay-themed-film-with-joaquin-phoenix-will-be-sexually-explicit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=18932","title":{"rendered":"Todd Haynes Says New Gay-Themed Film with Joaquin Phoenix Will Be Sexually Explicit"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Director Todd Haynes is hinting that there\u2019s going to be a heady dose of explicit sexuality in his upcoming gay-themed feature with Joaquin Phoenix. <br \/><br \/>Interviewed by <em>Variety<\/em> at the Deauville American Film Festival, Haynes described the film as \u201ca love story between two men set in the 30s that has explicit sexual content that &#8230; at least &#8230; challenges you with the sexual relationship between these two men.\u201d The story follows the travails of the two lead characters, a Native American and a corrupt Los Angeles cop, who eventually flee to Mexico.<br \/><br \/>Haynes noted that the story for the film emerged out of discussions with Phoenix, who will likely be playing the role of the corrupt cop, since the Native American character has yet to be cast. Given the SAG-AFTRA strike, filming will probably won\u2019t start until the middle of 2024, it\u2019s believed.<br \/><br \/>As Haynes put it: \u201cIt all started with Joaquin having some ideas and some thoughts and just questions and images. And he came to me and said, \u2018Does this connect to you at all?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Yeah, this is really interesting.\u2019 And so we would just be on the phone talking and it developed into a script.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxil online  no prescription pharmacy <\/div><br>\u201d<br \/><br \/>It was Phoenix, added Haynes, who started \u201cpushing it further into more dangerous territory, sexually.\u201d The film will be rated NC-17. <br \/><br \/>Haynes is now in the midst of a promotional campaign for his <em><strong>May December<\/strong><\/em> film that stars Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, and that was partly inspired by the Mary Key Letourneau scandal. Describing his experience in making the film as \u201csuperb,\u201d Haynes says he hopes to work with many of the same people in his new venture.<br \/><br \/>As for the yet-unnamed project with Joaquin Phoenix, Haynes was quoted as saying: &#8220;Everyone is already engaged on this next one and can&#8217;t wait. We have everybody already doing stuff on it, research stuff.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The acclaimed director added: &#8220;And yeah, we&#8217;re talking to Mexican producers, co-producers. We might want to shoot the whole thing in Mexico, so that we can build our Los Angeles of the 30&#8217;s there, and stretch our resources and work with the amazing craftspeople of Mexican cinema. That would be my dream. We&#8217;re hoping all that works out.&#8221;<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles.\u00a0<\/a><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Todd Haynes is hinting that there\u2019s going to be a heady dose of explicit sexuality in his upcoming gay-themed feature with Joaquin Phoenix. 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