The director of such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and that awesome White Stripes video with the Legos will adapt Gabrielle Bell’s short story Cecil and Jordan in New York for the upcoming anthology film Tokyo:
The film tells three separate stories of the Japanese capital, one by Leos Carax, one by Bong Joon-Ho, and one by Gondry. Gondry’s segment is titled Interior Design. Written by Gondry and comic author Gabrielle Bell, Design is based on Bell’s comic book “Cecil and Jordan in New York” from “Kramer’s Ergot #5”. The story follows a girl [Ayako Fujitani] who tries to move into Tokyo with her boyfriend. Unable to find an apartment or a job, she eventually turns into a chair. Sounds like something Gondry would make.
Note that Bell co-wrote the screenplay with Gondry. That’s pretty awesome.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:01 am
That story was pretty nifty. Not enough there to make a feature length film, but should work great as part of an anthology picture. It will be interesting to see what Gondry does with it.