Director announces a return to small-scale storytelling
The next project will reportedly shoot in a single town.
Expect the next chapter to be quieter than this one, and more consequential. The loud part is usually the prologue.
Whatever happens next, the baseline has moved. The old assumptions no longer describe the room they were built to describe.
The decision-makers involved insist nothing is settled, which is exactly what decision-makers say when something is starting to settle.
Still, the conversation has changed. The questions in the room are different from the questions in the room six months ago.
Observers describe a mood of cautious optimism, the kind that travels in private conversations long before it appears in any press release.
Skeptics point to the long history of premature declarations. Their caution is earned, and worth keeping close at hand.
