Director Spike Jonze isn’t wasting any time between projects. With the spectacular-looking Where the Wild Things Are coming to theaters October 16, Jonze already has his eye on his next project, having just acquired the rights to shoot Light Boxes, a film that zeros in on a mysterious town that suffers through an 1,000-day winter. Light Boxes, originally a short novel by Shane Jones, won’t actually be directed by Jonez, with Ray Tintori attached to shoot the flick. Tintori, a 24-year-old Brooklyn dweller, has already built an extensive resume that includes music videos for Chairlift and MGMT, with a Sundance-screened feature film called Death to the Tinman that we somehow missed. Nonetheless, this sounds like a promising project, though as long as it doesn’t somehow turn into another version of 30 Days of Night, we’ll stay excited for it.
