I was thinking that Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles could not do any wrong, especially since he directed two of my favorite films in the past few years: City of God (Cidade de Deus) and The Constant Gardner.
According to Variety, via Empire Online, his next film will be entitled Blindness, based on a philosophical novel by Jose Saramago. Is this the age of apocalyptic films?
Didn't Meirelles watch the trailer for Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men? Cuarón's film will be about a future where women are no longer giving birth to children, which of course causes much chaos and depression in the world.
Blindness, from a script written by Don McKellar, will be about:
[...] the chaos that ensues when an epidemic of sight loss seeps through a modern-day – but unnamed – city and society starts to collapse.
We can only wait and see, and I suppose can trust Meirelles since he has already given us at least two wonderful movies.
