After taking a break from the film industry for four years, award winning Australian director Phillip Noyce returned to theaters this past summer helming the spy action thriller "Salt" with Angelina Jolie. Noyce's last feature film that he directed before that was "Catch a Fire" released in 2006, which starred Derek Luke and Tim Robbins.
Noyce doesn't churn out films on a yearly basis, and he has stated now that if "Salt" spawns a sequel, he won't be the director of it. According to Moviehole, the director said: "Those three [alternate] Blu-ray cuts [of the film] represent just about everything I have to offer on Evelyn Salt. If there ever is a sequel, better its directed by someone with a completely fresh take on what I believe could be a totally entertaining and complex series of stories."
In the meantime, instead of worrying about further "Salt" films, the acclaimed director of films such as "The Bone Collector", "The Quiet American" and "Rabbit Proof Fence" has decided to focus on other projects.
One is the romantic drama "Timeless", which is being written by "Enchanted" scribe Bill Kelly, while the other is "Dirt Music", a project Noyce has wanted to work on for quite some time. According to the site, "Atonement" screenwriter Christopher Hampton is in negotiations to rework the script for Noyce's passion project, which is an adaptation of Tim Winton's thriller novel "Dirt Music". Russell Crowe is still attached to star in the project.
Noyce is one of Hollywood's most well-respected directors, and while I thought "Salt" wasn't great, I felt it was a quality return to form by the director. Some of his past films, especially "The Bone Collector", are some of my favorite films of recent years and I think it's a positive move for the director to move on from "Salt" and work on other projects, considering that in this past decade he has worked on only a handful of films.
It's also good to see that Hampton will be working on the script for "Dirt Music", because in my opinion "Atonement" was just fantastic. Although Joe Wright, the director, is mostly responsible for how good it was, the script was truly great as well, having shaped an excellent novel into an even better movie.
More news on Noyce's upcoming projects should come early in the New Year.
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