The Wachowski siblings don’t exactly like revealing much about their movies even after they’ve been released, and while they’re in production it’s like getting blood from a stone. And with their latest, things are even more mysterious. It’s been a year now since Arianna Huffington revealed to a surprised world she was shooting scenes for a Wachowski film nobody had even heard of.
Then a few months ago it was revealed it was a ‘Hard R’ gay iraq war movie, which would somehow also involve the future, and then the title Cobalt Neural 9 surfaced. All we’ve really known is that it’ll be about a homosexual relationship between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi, and that it’s a cinema verite-style treatment that begins in the near future and then spans back over years that include the current war in Iraq.
Now Vulture has been digging around and added to our knowledge. First off, they reveal that Huffington, and Jesse Ventura, will play historians/pundits a 100 years from now, who get involved after raw footage is found and put together by ‘digital archeologists’ telling the story that makes up the main bulk of the film. That involves Cloverfield style ‘found footage’ flashbacks about an American soldier in Iraq called ‘Butch’ (no, really), who falls for an Iraqi soldier turned militant.
The two eventually become radicalised after what they see during the war and become convinced the only way rid the world of evil is to kill George W. Bush during one of his secret trips to the Middle East.
Although it’s not certain when it will start shooting properly, it could be as early as next month. That’s if the brothers can get the financing together – and it’s certainly not a project any studio would touch (indeed, it all sounds rather peculiar whoever’s putting up to cash) – but as it’ll only cost $20 million, they should be able to find the money somewhere. There are a few more spoilers over at Vulture, so head there to take a look.