Well, it was worth the wait for Anomalisa. Masterpiece.

Same here. It's funny, I've recently thought about "Synecdoche" and why it failed. I was impressed by it, but at the same time knew not too many people would feel the same way. Charlie Kaufman, I think, said he has a fondness for P.K. Dick, which often shows in the way Kaufmann's plots are based on incredibly good ideas. Identity is probably a topic both writers were/are very interested in.
So, while thinking about Synecdoche I hear a radio interview from Cannes (I think), where Anomalisa was cherished by movie journalists. It did great, Kaufman did it again, and I'm glad about it. I think it is perfectly normal to make great movies every 5-10 years. Writing a screenplay for "Avengers" (with all the lore around it + a standardized screenplay) is a very different job from creating a unique story.
I think actors want to make movies with great scripts. They are happy to play a role that matters to them, too. I always saw Kaufman as an actor's writer. That's probably the reason he is still making movies. I believe studios are all led by a committee these days. So there is no easy blame when a project goes wrong. This commercial only view led to studios doing the least they can for maxi111cmum effect. A writer like Kaufman gets a few thousand excited. A hack like Michael Bay is cheered on by millions.

It looks like he's been working on a stopped-motion feature,
Anomalisa (2015)
. It also looks like
Dan Harmon
and
Dino Stamatopoulos
's production company
Starburns Industries
is involved in the production according to their site (
http://www.starburnsindustries.com/about/
).
I'm suddenly pretty excited about this.

I haven't heard anything like that. He's married with children, and I haven't heard anything otherwise

I think he's struggled with mental illness and substance abuse problems.

I obviously don't know anything, but I'm pretty sure he's making money like most talented screenwriters in Hollywood do: with uncredited rewrites of studio beep Kinda sad.
good point.
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pro ego sum diabolus, pro ego sum nex.

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I obviously don't
know
anything, but I'm pretty sure he's making money like most talented screenwriters in Hollywood do: with uncredited rewrites of studio beep Kinda sad.

A few years ago I read that he bought the rights to the novel The Futuristby James P. Othmer. I think I read this sometime not too long after Synecdoche NY was released. I havent heard anything about it since. But at the time it wasnt too surprising or hard to believe, because often when a new director writes and directs their first film theyll adapt a novel for their second film. Im sure Charlie Kaufman has all sorts of ideas and scripts by himself or someone else and books hed like to adapt. The problem is getting money to make them. Its very surprising and incredibly disappointing that a big name writer like Charlie Kaufman can`t get enough funding to make a film. I find this very surprising.
I wish Philip K. Dick had written
Lord of Light

thanks for the info.
When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth

don't forget it though. or else

I didn't add that, because there hasn't been anything "official" about it. Del Toro likes to talk about things he wants to work on.
"I think this is my supervillain origin."

And Slaughterhouse Five

He's doing a pilot for FX called
How and Why
. He's also going to be writing the screenplay for
The Knife of Never Letting Go
, which is going to be directed by Robert Zemeckis.
"I think this is my supervillain origin."