Jean-Marc Vallée 1963-2021 | Works left in suspense

The disappearance of Jean-Marc Vallée upsets not only humans, but also projects, the consequences of which remain uncertain. In 2018, the filmmaker founded the Crazyrose company with Nathan Ross, executive co-producer of the films. Wild and Dallas Buyers Club as well as series Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. As a director, producer or screenwriter, Jean-Marc Vallée was involved in many projects intended for small and large screens. A look.

Charles-Éric Blais-Poulin
Press

The Player’s Table

Under the Crazyrose banner, the Vallée-Ross duo ensured the production of the series The Player’s Table alongside, in particular, Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, Handmaid’s Tale). “I was hoping to wake up this morning and that none of this was true,” she reacted on Instagram. You taught me so much about the magic of art, music and storytelling [storytelling]. We will all miss you. The actress – who worked in front of the lens of the Quebec filmmaker in Sharp Objects – must camp Jill Newman, a student from Long Island who is investigating the murder of her best friend. She will count on the help of Rachel Calloway, whose role has been entrusted to her musician accomplice Halsey. “A genius, a poet, an incredible translator of untold emotions,” commented the latter under a photo of Jean-Marc Vallée. The loss is profound. We will make you proud, JMV. Your next story is in the stars. The filming of the HBO series Max, scaffolded from the best-selling book They Wish They Were Us, by Jessica Goodman, is scheduled for 2022.

Lady in the Lake

Last March, Apple announced that it had “placed an order” for the creation of the miniseries Lady in the Lake, with none other than Natalie Portman – a leading role on the small screen! – and Lupita Nyong’o in the lead roles. The adaptation of the eponymous novel has been left to the care of screenwriter and director Alma Har’el. The three women act as executive producers, but they also enlist the services of the Crazyrose tandem. “Heartbroken,” wrote the Israeli-American filmmaker on Twitter Monday about the death of Jean-Marc Vallée. I tried to get up at 5 a.m. and write so you can see I’m still here, but I sat down in tears. You fearlessly fought for creativity, imagination, honesty, passion, and all the things we fear losing. My friend, this world has darkened today. We love you. The Apple TV + series looks at an unsolved murder in the Baltimore of the 1960s.

Gorilla and the Bird

In 2018, HBO entrusted Jean-Marc Vallée with the production of Gorilla and the Bird, miniseries derived from the memoirs of Zack McDermott around filial tenderness and bipolarity. No cast or shoot date had yet been announced. Crazyrose shares executive production with Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan, the trio behind the Free Association banner, as well as Big Beach Films. It was Bryan Sipe who was commissioned to adapt the autobiographical book to the small screen. We owe him in particular the scenario of Demolition, feature film by Jean-Marc Vallée starring Jake Gyllenhaal. After Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, Gorilla and the Bird would have been the third television project produced by the Quebecer on behalf of HBO.

Untitled project about John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Seen by Denis Villeneuve as the “next masterpiece” of Jean-Marc Vallée, a biographical film on the romance between John Lennon and Yoko Ono has captured the late filmmaker during the pandemic. According to producer Michael De Luca (The Social Network), Quoted by Rolling Stones in 2018, Anthony McCarten (Bohemian rhapsody) laid the foundations for the script, then Jean-Marc Vallée was commissioned to edit and expand it. The filmmaker would therefore have had a quadruple role: screenwriter, director, editor and producer. Yoko Ono, one of the instigators of the project, was also involved in the production of the feature film. “It’s going to be a long movie,” the director told Journal of Montreal in May 2020. It will last three hours! It’s gonna be epic. I’m very excited to embark on this project, but at the same time, it’s quite puzzling to tell the love story between John and Yoko. Jean-Marc Vallée was hoping that filming will begin in December 2020 or January 2021, but COVID-19 seems to have played the troublemakers.

Girl Named Sue

Jean-Marc Vallée, along with his partner Nathan Ross and Laura Bickford, was executive producer of Girl Named Sue, feature film by Fernando Coimbra with Shailene Woodley in the title role. The “Jane Chapman” of Big Little Lies was chosen to play Sue Webber-Brown, a drug detective who uprooted thousands of children from toxic homes. On Instagram, Woodley posted a long and touching post in memory of a man who was “interested”, “curious”, “humble” and “who listens to women.” She recounts in particular her last meeting with the director, after two weeks of “winter quarantine” in Montreal. “You gave the world, and my little world, the treasure of feeling less alone and more alive,” she wrote. We will miss you every day. Thank you for being the artist so few of us can claim to be today: authentic, dedicated, well crafted and true. ” Girl Named Sue, based on a true story, was co-scripted by Lisa Cole and her spouse, Mark Monroe. Few details have leaked out about the set, which was set to take place first in 2020 and then in 2021.