Fernando Meirelles has had an interesting career. While City Of God opened doors that could have led him straight into mainstream Hollywood, he’s instead stuck with projects that may have had more star clout than his previous work, but which were nevertheless slightly risky, such as The Costant Gardener and Blindness.
Now Deadline reports that he’s signed a deal to direct 360, from a script by The Queen and Frost/Nixon’s Peter Morgan (who seems to produce screenplays at an incredible rate). Apparently ‘360 examines sexual morals within and between social classes, using various pairs of characters who have sexual encounters in and outside of their social classes. Morgans inspiration is Reigen, the play by Austrian author/playwright Arthur Schnitzler [whose worked also inspired Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut]. Originally published in 1900, the play was scandalous when first made public.’
Reigen was previously turned into the controversial 1950 French movie La Ronde, and more recently got put adapted for the stage by David Hare as The Blue Room, which memorably featured Nicole Kidman in the altogether, so it’s certainly no stranger to scandal.
No cast has been announced as yet, but it’ll be interesting to see who comes on-board the ORF Fernsehfilm and BBC Films financed film, and just how sexual Meirelles will want it to be.