What a year it’s been for the boys of Blue Tongue Films. From the fawning critical praise garnered by Spencer Susser’s Hesher and David Michod’s Animal Kingdom to renewed stateside interest in the work of Nash and Joel Edgerton, 2010 saw the Sydney-based film collective make well-timed waves overseas. A fact not lost on Michod who, in an interview conducted earlier this year, explained why the synchronicity of their recent success has nothing to do with serendipity:
“It’s been encouraging and rewarding for all of us to watch our respective careers grow in parallel and to see these things happen which in a way, because of the nature of the little collective, isn’t coincidental. The fact that The Square and Hesher and Animal Kingdom have all happened around the same time isn’t exactly coincidental because it’s all very much a product of the shorts we were doing together and the kind of the heat and the momentum that we got coming out of those shorts.”
And right on cue Kieran Darcy-Smith, another of the collective, is set to make his Directorial debut with “Say Nothing” a psychological drama focusing on “a husband and wife who go on an ill-fated holiday in South East Asia with her sister and the sister’s boyfriend.“. Teresa Palmer (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) will star alongside Blue Tongue brethren Joel Edgeton as the “husband and wife”. Palmer incidentally, is the current girlfriend of Nash Edgerton who is also tapped to Produce and coordinate the film’s stunts. Darcy-Smith, who has numerous credits in the Blue Tongue back catalogue, co-wrote the script with Felicity Price. Sounds interesting.
Via Collider
