Never Let Me Go’s Mark Romanek To Direct Ben Stiller In ‘A Parking Ticket’
Early this year /Film broke news of apotential collaborationbetween directorMark Romanek(One Hour Photo,Never Let Me Go) andBen StilleronThe Voices, the2009 Black Listfilm about a man who takes advice from his cat and dog on how to cover up a murder. Looks like about half that report was accurate, as the Romanek project that Stiller is actually attached to star in is notThe Voices, but a movie titledA Parking Ticket. Romanek’s succinct pitch describes the film beautifully: “Ben Stiller decides to fight an unjust parking ticket and teach his daughter how the system can work and ends up on death row.”
Worst Previewscaught up to Romanek to ask him about the film he had been working on with Stiller, and ended up finding out about a project that’s never before been discussed.
A Parking Ticketwill probably not be Romanek’s next film, as he has an undisclosed project that he’s been developing for 15 years that he plans on making his follow-up toNever Let Me Go. He also hopes to move forward onA Cold Case, a film which he detailed the initial downfall of inan interview with /Film.
In Romanek’s interview withWorst Previews, he explained that once that single road block is taken care of, the film can finally be made.
The killer in the film is being paroled soon. When he dies, we can make the film. We still hope to make that movie one day.
Picking up on a nice little death wish from Romanek there; though with the luck he’s had, I can’t say that I blame him. He was hard at work onA Million Little PiecesandThe Wolfmanbefore those projects fell apart, too. You can read more about the hurdles that Mark Romanek encountered with these films in hisinterview with /Film.
