Spike Jonze has acquired the rights to Shane Jones' debut novel "Light Boxes," which centers on a mysterious town that endures a deadly 1,000-day winter. According to Amazon, the story, "concerns the war the townspeople bring against February, an oddly real and powerful character." One review calls the novel, "professionally quirky."
However, Jonze isn't directing and instead, Ray Tintori is attached to direct. Is Jonze producing? Presumably, but the trades don't specify his participation so far other than having bought the rights to the novel.
He is definitely deserving, I'm excited to see his transition to features, and what he does with the material. He is enormously talented, and decidedly not a one trick pony so at the very least the result should be interesting. I will say "professionally quirky" is distressing, but I would imagine the same description could be ascribed to "Death to the Tinman".
The Jonze connection is interesting, as it seems that Tintori will follow an accelerated version of Jonze career path. (Minus acting.) Not only the jump from great music videos to features, but both doing so without the "Writer/Director" tag. Tintori's short film, "Death to the Tinman" was adapted from a short story and it looks like his first feature will be too.
The book sounds awfuly like "Death to the Tinman" however I have a feeling he won't attempt to shoot in his signature black-and-white-extended-montage-lite style. I think he is too smart for that, as his Music Videos have shown. However I would expect, some interesting figurative depiction of "February" and the small snow town to draw similarities to "Death to the Tinman".
All in all, I hope this pans out and that we see a Tintori feature by 2011.
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