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In an interview with MTVnews.com, Paul Reubens, who was cast to play a role in Life During Wartime, said the film's been pushed back three times now because there've been problems financing on the film. "If it gets made, I’m doing it - but I’m not sure. It’s gotten pushed three times,” he said. “To me it’s such a sad state of events that he can’t get that movie made. He’s such a talented guy.”

He describes the film as: "it’s characters from Welcome To the Dollhouse and Happiness whose paths converge. It’s all different people playing the same roles... I’m playing a role someone else played in one of those movies.” Sounds good to me. Let's hope he can pull this off.

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Originally the film was said to be a “kind of sequel to — or riff on — ‘Happiness’, and to some extent ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’.”

“Many of the characters from these movies unexpectedly beckoned to me, and so I have explored new ways of developing and enlarging their stories, with the intent to recast them from a fresh perspective,” Solondz said in a 2006 statement.

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Paris Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picture

12 Nov 2008 00:09

Charlotte Rampling, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds and Paris Hilton have joined the cast of Werc Werk Works' upcoming Todd Solondz companion piece to his dark comedy Happiness.

The "part-sequel, par variation" to the 1998 release will also star Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chane't Johnson, Paul Reubens, Eric Wareheim and Chris Marquette.

East Coast-based Werc Werk Works is fully financing and producing the tale of dysfunctional relationships, which is currently underway in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Werc Werk Works co-founder Christine Kunewa Walker is producing with Mike S Ryan and Derrick Tseng while Werc Werks Works co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Redleaf and vice president of production Ken Bailey are executive producers.

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Kan det vara så att Hiltons eventuella medverkan var det som rodde produktionsbåten i hamn?

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Tyvärr tror jag nog det är så. Om det inte är så tror jag att finansiärerna tror det.

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Hennes senaste filmer har varit enorma floppar så eventuella finansiärer borde dra öronen åt sig.

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Ok, it's back to being referred to as untitled by its production company, but I'll just use Life During Wartime for now as a working title until a new one is announced. Here's the plot description from the official press release - it's pretty illuminating, but in following with what we've heard so far:

"The characters in this part-sequel/part-variation on HAPPINESS struggle to find a place for themselves in an unpredictable and volatile world. The past haunts the present and imperils the future: ghosts circle and loom, trouble and console. The question of forgiveness, and its limits, threads throughout a series of intersecting love stories, offering clarity and, possibly, alternatives to the comforts of forgetting. There is Joy (Shirley Henderson), who discovers her husband Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams) is not quite cured of his peculiar “affliction” and runs away, seeking solace and guidance from her mother and sisters; her former suitor, Andy (Paul Reubens), now deceased, but still never giving up in his effort to win Joy’s heart; her sister Trish (Allison Janney), who meets Harvey (Michael Lerner), a lonely divorced man on the cusp of retirement, and hopes that a new man in the house will bring stability to her fragile family; her sister Helen who feels victimized by both her family and her Hollywood success; her mother Mona (Renée Taylor), who can’t let go of her bitterness about men; Harvey’s son Mark (Rich Pecci), who struggles with social isolation and profound pessimism; Bill (Ciáran Hinds), Trish’s former husband, just released from prison and on a quest to reconnect with his son Billy (Chris Marquette); Jacqueline (Charlotte Rampling), the needy woman who forgoes caution in her desperate search for love; and Kristina (Chane’t Johnson), a fugitive from prison who can’t let go of her obsessive—albeit chaste—love for Allen. These and other characters and storylines as well—alternately funny and sad, outrageous and poignant—dovetail, expand, and collide to create a kaleidoscopic and emotionally resonant portrait of prisoners of love and life during wartime."

...They do keep using that phrase; maybe it will wind up being the title after all. Anyway, Solondz is also quoted as saying, "ten years have passed since Happiness, but I prefer not to be beholden to the literalness of time or circumstance. I like to tweak things, get at stuff from a fresh angle, and so, for example, some characters have aged five years, some twenty years, some histories have been altered, and I have allowed race not to be something set in stone. Of course, it’s a completely different cast. It’s more fun and interesting that way.”

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Is Todd Solondz's new quasi/sorta sequel to 1998's "Happiness" now titled, "Forgiveness"?

Well, for one, the project formerly titled, "Life During Wartime," is now listed on IMDB as "Forgiveness" and ScreenDaily is reporting that Fortissimo Films has has acquired international rights from Werc Werk Works for the film which they also label by the new title. Sounds like this is the one.

Paris Hilton, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams and Paul Reubens are among the cast as previously reported.

In a Werc Werk Works pdf we found online, Solondz says of the project. “Ten years have
passed since HAPPINESS, but I prefer not to be beholden to the literalness of time or circumstance. I like to tweak things, get at stuff from a fresh angle, and so, for example, some characters have aged five years, some twenty years, some histories have been altered, and I have allowed race not to be something set in stone. Of course, it’s a completely different cast.
It’s more fun and interesting that way.”
There's also a long synopsis for the film as well that unveils a lot of the plot details.

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Sounds like Paris Hilton's role if small if they mention eleven actors and not even a peep of her. Will we see "Forgiveness" this year? It's possible. The film is apparently already in post-production. Here's to hoping Solondz delivers something with a bit more staying power than "Palindromes," though we have to admit, once we got over our initial anger and outrage, the hatefulness of "Storytelling," turned out to be pretty amusing.

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Kanske kan ta henne ur Razzie-träsket.

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