Sounds quirky and awesome!
And check out the rest of the cast: James Caan, Johnny Knoxville, and Peter Stormare!
http://www.chrismillis.com/2011/01/smal ... lm-in.html"Small Apartments" On Track to Film in Spring 2011...
Renowned music video director, Jonas Akerlund, will direct the marvelously talented British comic and stage performer, Matt Lucas ("Little Britain", "Alice in Wonderland"), in my adaptation of my 2001 debut novella, "Small Apartments." Read Mack Rawden's article about the project at Cinema Blend.
Casting has expanded to include James Caan, Johnny Knoxville, Dolph Lundgren, and Peter Stormare ("Fargo", "The Big Lebowski"). The film is in pre-production in Los Angeles for a March start date
Dolph already did the MQ / Red Cross commercial video "Give a Little Bit" with fellow Swede Akerlund.
SMALL APARTMENTS is based on a 2001 novel by Chris Millis (who also wrote the screenplay), winner of a 3-day-novel-writing contest
http://www.anvilpress.com/Books/small-apartmentshttp://www.amazon.com/Small-Apartments- ... 1895636353Small Apartments, a capricious comedy of errors resonates with tremulous energy and memorable characters. Franklin Franklin is a fully realized and sympathetic protagonist in the vein of Ignatius Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces), a simple man who yearns for “a land of pastoral serenity” devoid of the irritants of contemporary urban life. An off-beat tale, Small Apartments is accented along the way by murder, strange fingernail collections, and the occasional blast from a treasured alphorn.
Book review:
http://www.tftorrey.com/reviews/millis- ... ments.htmlFranklin plays the alphorn and dreams of Switzerland. His crazy brother sends him fingernail clippings in the mail. One of his neighbors is a forgetful pot-head, the other a gruff busybody who doesn't miss anything. Across the street live a mother and her fifteen-year-old daughter, whom he likes to watch from his window, but none of these are Franklin's real problem. His real problem is that his landlord is dead, laid out on the linoleum of his kitchen, and Switzerland seems farther away all the time.
DEVIANT FILMS acquired the rights and started developing the project in 2005. Producers Tim Peternel (Deviant Films), David Hillary (Deviant Films) and Ash Shah (Silver Nitrate Entertainment) have helped produce and develop some of the seminal independent movies of the last 10 years: "Buffalo 66", "The Virgin Suicides", "American Psycho"...
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