Moon director Duncan Jones has released the first concept image for his next project, futuristic thriller Mute, giving us a foretaste of his Bladerunner-inspired Berlin.
Mute center around the disappearance of a young woman, and her partner, a mute bartender, who must face Berlin’s gangsters to find out what happened to her. We spoke to Jones earlier this summer about the setting for Mute and why he’s had Bladerunner in mind when constructing his future Berlin:
https://gizmodo.com/duncan-jones-next-science-fiction-film-has-unique-vil-5278323
The only reason that I mention Blade Runner is because there’s something about that particular film, where they really created a believable and realistic living breathing futuristic world. For all of the other films that have tried to do that I don’t think anything has come as close the way Blade Runner has to creating something believable. Something that feels real and organic. It’s like going to a real city and shooting a film there. You just get a sense that this place exists. [In] most of the science fiction films, it always feels a bit fake and a bit flat, but Blade Runner really didn’t. That’s the aspect of Blade Runner I’m hoping to capture. If and when I get the chance to do my film that I’m making.
According to the Liberty Films site, Jones plans to start shooting Mute in Berlin early next year.
