Christopher Nolan is focused on giving us "Dark Knight Rises", slated for 2012. Nolan has given me the expectations of a film every year and a half. He better keep that steady too.
Mel Gibson, on his 4 or 5 year running Hollywood shun, has nothing in terms of film directing written in his schedule. Its too bad too, word around the campfire was that we could have seen a great film about vikings. Mel Gibson needs to hire some more publicists, good ones, and get his image back from destroyed to just cracked. No one cared when he was just cracked. It was when he was cracked that he gave us great films.
This one is better news... M. Night Shyamalan. He isn't slated for anything since "Last Airbender" and "Devil". I think most of America, and perhaps the world is happy about that too. After seeing him create so much garbage, people may want to just cast off his successes into the same lake of fire with the rest and forget he ever took a breath of air.
Danny Boyle, after "127 Hours" has nothing in the works for 2011 in the life of film making. Its too bad too, I would have liked him to jump right into a follow-up film, like Kathryn Bigelow after "Hurt Locker".
Paul Thomas Anderson, rumored to create a film about scientology, had been postponed... indefinitely... for now... Since making what I hail as the greatest film ever executed in "There Will Be Blood", he hasn't made any promises. There is nothing to show for work in progress from this 'on the fence' [of greatness], director.
Ben Affleck will be on a bit of a hiatus as he takes on more of a role as father in the life of his child. He has no film on the table to be directed, or even rumored, for now.
Roman Polanski... a man America probably won't be excited to support from here on out. There will be enough people in America to sustain a profit for him if he decided to do so, as long as the government doesn't come into things. His legal situation probably locked up his future success, what he is right now, will probably be it for him. He doesn't have anything being worked on until 2012, and not much is known in terms of the specifics of range of release.
Quentin Tarantino has been quiet since last year's "Inglorious Bastards". His next work in slated for 2014, that work being the next 'Kill Bill' installment. I don't care too much for Tarantino being quiet, I think his work is on course to compete with the best, but I would hate to see gaps. I am greedy. I want Tarantino 2 or 3 times by 2014.
David Lynch is yet another name who could possibly be in silence for some time, as no rumors can be found with legs for work in 2011.
Michael Moore... well we have what 2 or so years left of Obama, and if we are lucky, we will get ourselves a Republican after that, so perhaps we won't see Moore for another 3 or 4 years. That is unless he makes a documentary about 'WikiLeaks'.
Wes Anderson will also be absent, as nothing is on his plate right now.
George Lucas still hasn't fulfilled promises. 5 years running on empty words. Lucas, I cannot wait for the day all the little Lucas'ites take your estate and proclaim ridiculousness and taint you more than you did to yourself. I want a Star Wars remake, there I said it.
This is all my brain can think of right this moment... perhaps more shall come to memory in the next few days or so.
