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For months, director Sam Mendes has been toiling at an editing facility in New York City. He's been shaping and reshaping the voice-over narration and fiddling with precise gradations of bleached-out imagery on the way to a final cut of Jarhead, an account of what one group of U.S. Marine Corps troops went through in the 1991 Gulf War. With only about a week to go before the movie's publicity junket, Mendes finally okayed a finished print. Now, near the close of a three-day barrage of interviews in Los Angeles, he sounds like he's got postpartum blues. It's one thing to whip your film into shape in comparative privacy. It's another to send your baby out into the hard world.
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While Sam Mendes is still finishing up Revolutionary Road, his next project has already been announced in Variety. This is a nice change of pace for Mendes, who has released only two films since his stunning debut (1999's American Beauty). Better still, his next film was written by Dave Eggers and his wife Vindela Vida.
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Sam Mendes made his Oscar®-winning directorial debut with American Beauty. One of today's most celebrated theater directors, Mendes's stage triumphs include the Tony-award winning revival of Cabaret; The Blue Room, starring Nicole Kidman; and the original stage production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, starring Jane Horrocks. His latest film, Road to Perdition, stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and Jude Law. He is currently prepping a revival of the Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Bernadette Peters.
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American Beauty director Sam Mendes is taking another look at the American family, this time in a comedy written by author Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and his novelist/editor wife, Vendela Vida (And Now You Can Go). The untitled film, which is being produced and co-financed by Big Beach Films (Little Miss Sunshine), follows a couple, pregnant with their first child, as they travel America looking for the ideal place to settle down. Focus Features, which will distribute the film, hasn't confirmed casting, but John Krasinski (The Office), pictured, and Maya Rudolph (SNL) are rumored to star.
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Sam Mendes was born in Reading, England to intellectual, highly accomplished parents. His father was a university lecturer, and his mother was a children's book author. His paternal grandfather was the august Trinidadian writer Alfred Mendes. In 1970, when Mendes was five years old, his parents divorced, though their relationship is said to have remained amicable. Mendes excelled at school and matriculated at Cambridge University, where he studied English and began directing theatrical productions. After graduating, he decided to pursue a career in the theater.
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"The many admirers of Dave and Vendela's writing can look forward to an edgy, breathtakingly funny, and movingly scripted film worthy of a master like Sam Mendes," says Focus CEO James Schamus. "We're thrilled that these three gifted collaborators will have the support of some of the most accomplished producers in the business."
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