{"id":859713,"date":"2026-08-18T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859713\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:40:15","slug":"jeff-nichols-talks-three-films-that-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859713\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Nichols Talks Three Films That Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Focus Features<\/p>\n

A new feature interview with celebrated \u201cTake Shelter,\u201d \u201cMud\u201d and \u201cThe Bikeriders\u201d filmmaker Jeff Nichols has confirmed that multiple projects he\u2019s worked on are effectively dead \u2013 even as he\u2019d still like to make them some day.<\/p>\n

Talking with Variety<\/a>, he revealed that the previously announced Cuban Revolution-themed feature \u201cYankee Comandante,\u201d which would\u2019ve reunited him with his \u201cMidnight Special\u201d star Adam Driver, is no longer happening:<\/p>\n

\u201cI love that film [\u2018Yankee\u2019], and I would really like to make it. It\u2019s hard to take a movie out in March of 2020. That was a rough year! I love it so much, and David Grann\u2019s article that inspired it is so good. I\u2019m loath to ever say movies are important, but it feels like something that\u2019s important.<\/p>\n

Adam was going to star as William Morgan, and now that won\u2019t happen, but we\u2019ve got another project that we\u2019re going to do together. It [\u2018Yankee Comandante\u2019] is an important film not only about our relationship with Cuba but also our relationship with the Southern Hemisphere and whether we\u2019re able to export our ideology. I love what the film talks about, and I love that it\u2019s a true story that\u2019s a little bit gonzo.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few years back Nichols confirmed he was adapting two Cormac McCarthy books, \u201cThe Passenger\u201d and \u201cStella Maris,\u201d and combining the two into a single feature. Asked if the new project with Driver was that, he says it\u2019s not and the McCarthy project is apparently dead as well:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not. Those two books would become one screenplay, which I\u2019ve written, because the books are connected. But that was with New Regency and I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll be moving forward with that one. It\u2019s a challenging story and it made for a challenging screenplay. Ultimately, they were looking for a more commercial story and I think I was a little too faithful to the books.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Nichols spent many years attached to a remake of \u201cAlien Nation\u201d with that project falling by the wayside following the Disney-Fox merger. He says \u201cit\u2019s still something I want to make\u201d but sadly it\u2019s almost certainly not going to happen.<\/p>\n

Recently, Nicholas has been in Arkansas shooting the Southern indie horror film \u201cKing Snake\u201d starring Margaret Qualley, Drew Starkey, and Michael Shannon. NEON is set to release that film, but it hasn\u2019t set a date yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Focus Features A new feature interview with celebrated \u201cTake Shelter,\u201d \u201cMud\u201d and \u201cThe Bikeriders\u201d filmmaker Jeff Nichols has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-859713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}