Just when you thought the Wachowskis, the team behind “The Matrix” films, couldn’t get any weirder.
Deadline is reporting that the brother/sister duo (sister because Larry is a post-op female now named Lana) are circulating a new script around Hollywood that revisits territory they covered in 1996’s “Bound,” a heist film with a lesbian romance.
The tandem has been relatively quiet since their cartoonish psychedelic mega-flop, 2008’s “Speed Racer.” But now they’re back, this time with a drama that centers on a “hard R” gay love story between an Iraqi and a US soldier.
The treatment is reportedly an intense cinema verite-style flick set in the near future that also covers past and present years of the current Iraq War.
Deadline’s sources say that the siblings have a completed script, are interested in directing and that the treatment is currently making the rounds to financiers. Though financing may prove difficult considering the poor track record of Iraq War films at the box office combined with the marketing problems inherent in presenting a non-conventional love story to mainstream audiences.
