The Duplass Brothers' Table 19 Set Up At Fox Searchlight
Production Weeklyhave tweeted thatTable 19, the third feature fromMark and Jay Duplass, has been set up at Fox Searchlight. If you’re asking “Mark and Jay who?” then I’d strongly encourage you to play catch up with a DVD session or two.
The slim sliver of premise that Production Weekly could fit into their Tweet read like this:
The Duplass Bros. ensemble comedyTable 19, has been setup @foxsearchlight – about the wedding guests who get stuck at the singles table.
The brothers' third feature,Do-Deca-Pentathlonis currently in the late stages of post production, so it’s the perfect time for stories to start to bubbling up regarding their fourth movie. Late last year, it looked like that next picture was going to beThe Untitled Project Formally Known as Safety Man, starring John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei and Jonah Hill. Now, however, that Production Weekly have announced that the Duplass' have set upTable 19with Fox Searchlight, I guess we just don’t know for sure.
It’s entirely possibleT.U.P.F.K.S.Mwill go before cameras next withTable 19to follow, though from the vantage point that most of us have, where the view is somewhat limited, it looks equally possible thatTable 19has overtaken and will see production first. Either way – the Duplass Bros. have one film in the can, two more in the works. Good for us, good for them.
I think we can assume thatTable 19isn’t just a new name forT.U.P.F.K.S.Mwhich is reportedly about how the Reilly character’s romance with the Tomei character is hampered by her son, the Hill character.
I have a great many issues with the style of camerawork employed by the Duplass Bros., a kind of roming semi-verite aesthetic hobbled with zooms and countless focus and exposure issues. On the other hand, they do make a lot of sensible choices in their framing and camera movement, so their films don’t exactly succeed in spite of their camerawork… just in spite ofelements oftheir camerawork. And, strictly speaking, in spite of a few other technical nitpicks but, all the same, winning the race is winning the race no matter what hurdles have been kicked flying along the way.
