David Lynch And 9 Other Celebrated Filmmakers Who Have Moved To Netflix – Screen Rant

Netflix has become the go-to place for renowned directors like David Lynch, Christopher Nolan and Spike Lee, looking to have their projects green-lit.

As movie studios are putting their trust in to original movies less and less, Netflix has come to the rescue, giving some of the greatest living directors a platform to showcase their original work andto all intents and purposes,writing them blank checks.

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Netflix have seemingly thrown a net in to Hollywood and pulled in some of the greatest filmmakers of our generation. Between the greatest gangster director of all time, irreverent and self-loathing auteurs, and the greatest politically motivated filmmaker of the 21st century, Netflix has quickly grown an incredible portfolio of collaborators. And now, most surprising of all, David Lynch has been added to the ever increasing list.

As David Lynch is a mysterious man, the details surrounding his upcoming project for Netflix are almost non-existent. All people know for sure is that the projects working title is Wysteria, but they dont even know if itll be a movie or a TV show, as Lynch has crafted both in his career, with movies like Mulholland Drive and the captivating, boundary pushing TV show, Twin Peaks. If it is a movie, its time to get excited, as the creative genius hasnt put out a feature length film since 2006s Inland Empire.

Fernando Meirelles name isnt mentioned as much as the likes of Martin Scorsese or David Fincher, but the Argentinian director is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st century, has been nominated for several Academy Awards, and directed City of God, which is in the top 30 movies on IMDb.The Two Popes, his first Netflix original, is one of the best films of 2019, and it brought Meirelles back in to the conversation of great directors after he had gone through somewhat of a quiet phase in his career.

In the late 90s, Charlie Kaufman quickly became one of the most sought after screenwriters of the time, and that success continued in the 2000s, as he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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His movies feature protagonists often based on himself, as theyre usually self-loathing and down trodden, and his films mix fantasy and reality in extraordinarily depressing ways.Im Thinking of Ending Thingsis typically Kaufman-esq, and as few studios darent risk giving the auteur a budget, Netlfix funded this irreverent picture that he expertly directed.

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