Charlie Kaufman’s Next Projects Include Turning His Unmade Steve Carell Movie into HBO Series
Charlie Kaufman’s upcoming Netflix movie “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” (streaming September 4) is one of the most highly anticipated films of the 2020 fall movie season. The movie is only Kaufman’s second live-action directorial feature after 2008’s “Synecdoche, New York,” and it is his first screen project in half a decade (his last release was 2015’s animated film “Anomalisa”). The wait for Kaufman’s “Ending Things” follow-up might not take as long as Variety confirms the writer-director is currently at work on two projects: “Memory Police” and “IQ83.” “Memory Police” is “a script about dreams” and based on Yōko Ogawa’s 1994 Japanese novel of the same name. Variety reports the project is in development with Ryan Gosling’s production company Arcana. The second project, “IQ83,” is based on the Arthur Herzog book of the same name and is being developed as “a limited series for HBO.” The novel takes place in a world where a virus spreads across the population and causes stupidity...