Two years in the past through the Evolution Mallorca Worldwide Movie Pageant, acclaimed Swedish movie director and author, Ruben Östlund, who in 2022 12 months received the Cannes Movie Pageant Palme d’Or with Triangle of Unhappiness final 12 months – the second time he has received this award – instructed the Bulletin that his intention is to shoot his subsequent movie in Mallorca.
Ruben, who lives in Mallorca and opened final 12 months’s Evolution Mallorca Worldwide Movie Pageant, stated he was planning on filming The Leisure System Is Down at Palma Airport, nevertheless now it seems that it could be shot between Palma and Germany. Nevertheless, it has been revealed that the all-star forged can be headed by Keanu Reeves and likewise characteristic Daniel Brühl, Kirsten Dunst, Joel Edgerton, Samantha Morton and Woody Harrelson.
Östlund has been in talks with the Mallorca Movie Fee and the airport about taking pictures and final 12 months he and his manufacturing workforce visited the Air Europa hangar in Palma and inspected an Airbus 330. Throughout the competition in Mallorca he instructed the Bulletin “The movie is about on a long-haul 15-hour flight and a few two hours into the flight the entire leisure system crashes – no in-flight films, no wifi, no cell phone connection, nothing. It’s about how the passengers react to a scenario like that after we now reside in a world by which we’re hooked on our telephones and social media.
“I’ve already had talks with the Mallorca Movie Fee and the airport about taking pictures at Palma airport, however a lot of the movie will clearly be shot within the enclosed setting of a aircraft, and that’s one thing we might additionally do right here in Palma. So, that is what we’re wanting into now. However I are likely to take three years between movies. Triangle of Unhappiness took 5 years to make due to the break as a result of pandemic, however I’m taking a look at my subsequent movie being accomplished inside three to 4 years and, if attainable, shot right here in Mallorca or not less than a part of it,” he stated.
“What occurs ultimately? Everyone dies,” he stated.
He additionally expl,ained to the Bulletin that in making ready the film, the Swedish filmmaker was impressed by a social psychological examine at Virginia College known as ‘The Problem Of The Disengaged Thoughts.’ The experiment discovered that individuals didn’t get pleasure from spending 6 to fifteen minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do however suppose. To take the experiment one step additional, the researchers added a twist: With the contact of a button, the take a look at topics might, if desired, give themselves a innocent however very painful electrical shock. It turned out {that a} quarter of all ladies and two-thirds of all males selected to press the button. One man even discovered being alone along with his ideas so insufferable that, through the quarter-hour, he gave himself 190 electrical shocks.
The challenge can be Östlund’s second English-language movie and seventh characteristic after The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008), Play (2011), Power Majeure (2014), The Sq. (2017) and Triangle of Unhappiness (2022). The final two of those received the director the Palme d’Or in Cannes, that means he’s considered one of solely a handful of filmmakers to have received the accolade twice.
