It’s been several months since it was revealed that Departed screenwriter William Monahan is planning to turn director with Mojave, based on his own script. Now he’s filled out the cast, with Variety reporting that Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) and Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty) have signed up for the movie.
When news of Monahan’s film was first announced, there wasn’t much info on the story, but it’s now been revealed that it’s ‘an intense two-hander about a man who escapes into the desert only to encounter a doppelganger-like antagonist and subsequently enter a vortex of criminality and violence.’
To be honest, you wouldn’t think Aussie actor Clarke would be a good doppelganger for Guatamalan born Isaac, but presumably it makes more sense in the script.
The plan is to shoot early next year.