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Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia" Nabs Stellar Cast

Jul 29, 2010


Kiefer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst and Stellan Skarsgard will be starring Lars Von Trier's next film, Melancholia. Details of the film are understandably under wraps, but the Guardian points out that the inviduals at Cannes are definitely excited for this film to be completed before its next festival, which is in May of 2011.

"Von Trier has described his new film as a "psychological disaster movie" and "a beautiful movie about the end of the world", but what will it look like? "Shit. No, I hope not, but a little shittier than the one I did before," the Danish director told the assembled press pack at the Trollhättan film studios in Sweden, where shooting for Melancholia began last week. This was about as much as the notoriously guarded Von Trier was prepared to give away. "I have a plan and nobody will ever find out what the plan is," he said."


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