Oliver Stone has not directed a story function since 2016’s “Snowden,” a hiatus of greater than 10 years and the longest hole with out a movie in his profession.
Back in 2024, Stone revealed that he was working on “one more ambitious narrative film” and had signed with Atlas Artists for illustration in all areas to “make that dream a reality.”
Then, within the fall, I reported that European backers had stepped in, and that the mysterious movie was “White Lies,” a mission Stone has been attempting to make for over a decade, with Benicio del Toro as soon as hooked up to the lead position. Sadly, I gave an replace, just a few weeks later, reporting that the mission had fallen apart.
Now, in an interview with Variety marking the fortieth anniversary of his Oscar-winning basic Platoon, Stone lastly acknowledges his pursuit of White Lies and says he believes it would get made.
I’ve been fairly busy establishing this lower-budget function known as “White Lies,” which I’ve tried to do for a few years. It’s off and on. It’s a script I preserve working on. It’s a private story about folks and relationships — husbands, wives, youngsters, grandparents. It’s about three generations of a household, and hopefully I’ll pull it off. I’m very shut.
Back in 2023, Stone admitted that he was struggling to safe financing for any of his tasks, suggesting he had been “blacklisted” from Hollywood—principally as a result of of his protection of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s warfare in Ukraine. He tells Variety that he has now determined to again off from discussing politics.
I really feel pissed off. I’ve definitely been loud in sharing my beliefs through the years, and my profession has suffered for it. I’ve discovered my lesson: Keep your views quiet.
Written and directed by Stone, White Lies was scheduled to shoot in Thailand and Italy in December. Stone, 78, lately acknowledged that he has “one more ambitious film” left in him.
Spanning three generations, the story of “White Lies” follows Del Toro as a toddler of divorce now repeating his mother and father’ errors in his personal marriage and along with his troubled son. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled quest for freedom, solely to turn into extra adrift. His path adjustments when he meets a lady whose life is the alternative of his personal, sparking a journey of rediscovery.
From 1986 by means of 1997, Stone was a inventive pressure with “Salvador” (’86), “Platoon” (’87), “Wall Street” (’87), “Born on the Fourth of July” (’89), and “JFK” (’91). You may prolong that run to embrace “Natural Born Killers” (’94), which has its followers, “Nixon” (’95), and his underrated 1997 pulp-noir “U-Turn.”
