Exclusive: Alexander Payne On For Wilson

And Nebraska will get a brand new titleOscar-expected comedy-drama The Descendants marks a very welcome return fromAlexander Payne. It's his first directorial gig since Sideways, almost eight previously, a little return fromone within our favourite filmmakers. And so the apparent, if tongue-in-mouth area question to request when Empire taken track of him was would he please make more films? "Concentrating on it!" Payne joked. "If perhaps now to swing now from film to film as being a monkey to monkey from branch to branch."The initial monkey swing takes him to his old Midwestern stomping ground and Nebraska. According to Payne, it's likely to acquire a new title (the film, not the problem) and casting news cannot be too remote either, with filming due to come from April.Payne expects to shoot in black-and-white-colored which is searching to discover a veteran of legendary standing to see the ageing alcoholic father within the center in the story. The presently-outdated Gene Hackman and Robert Forster, so excellent inside the Descendants, are two names to own been stated.Payne expects to hack straight on next - going to California for his first comic-book adaptation,Wilson.As Empire reported a whiles back, Paynes's production company, Ad Hominen, has labored to produce Serta 'Ghost World' Clowes' comic bookto the silver screen. Payne confirmed will still be beeping across his radar: "[Daniel] hasadapted their very own graphic novel personally and that we will probably put it in Concord, California." Wilson can be a middle-aged misanthrope who's left staggering following a dying of his father and tries to reunite along with his ex-wife as well as the teen daughter he's never known. But who to see him? Publish your casting ideas below.