TIlda Swinton has signed on to indie darling director Jim Jarmusch's latest project,
Only Loves Left Alive, which is slated to begin filming in Germany later this year.
This will be the second film in a row the pair have worked on together, following 2009's philosophically rich Spain-set crimmy
The Limits of Control.
The flick's other stars include gamine Australian export Mia Wasikowska and John Hurt. Tom Hiddleston (of
Thor and
War Horse fame) has also joined the cast, in a role that was apparently initially slated for upcoming indie darling (and according to the
WaPo's in-and-out list,
new Ryan Gosling) Michael Fassbender.
Only Loves Left Alive is billed as a dark romance between two vampires whose relationship spans centuries, and Jarmusch described the movie to screen daily as a ""crypto-vampire love story, set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers."
Jarmusch is producing as well as directing the film. While more details of the production are yet to emerge, we're hoping the film sees a return to Jarmusch's genre-play works like
Ghost Dog and
Dead Man (a film whose score rivals only Explosions in the Sky in its ability to get hipster girls laid).
Swinton would make such a perfect vampire, it is surprising she has never played one before, while Jarmusch's touch for the meditative could be well used to mark the passing of eons. What do you think of Jarmusch taking on such a played-out, and of-the-now subject?