Todd Haynes Speaks Out on Joaquin Phoenix Ditching Gay Romance Movie

Todd Haynes has spoken for the first time about his Joaquin Phoenix-led gay romance that fell apart fair five days before filming.

Haynes was asked about the project during a press event at Marrakech Film Festival. The moderator initipartner shelp the straightforwardor would not answer asks on the topic, but Haynes persisted to originate a alert statement.

“What happened this summer was stubborn,” Haynes shelp. “But the film itself and the script itself may resurrect in a branch offent create someday.”

The gay cherish story apparently complyed a corrupt cop and his youthfuler cherishr as they fled 1930s Los Angeles for Mexico, with Phoenix set to star alengthyside Danny Ramirez. In fact, Phoenix had startd the idea, conveying the project to Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and broadening the screenjoin with Haynes and Jon Raymond.

Sources seal to the production telderly Variety that the star got “freezing feet” — perhaps due to the film’s intfinished explicit and relationsupartner frank cherish scenes — and made the last-minute decision to exit the film even as brimming sets were already built in Guadalajara.

Haynes neither validateed nor denied those speculations while sitting for a retrospective conversation at the Marrakech Film Festival on Friday.

Since the film fell apart in August, star Joaquin Phoenix deteriorated to comment while at a Vepleasant press conference, saying his opinion would not be “beneficial” becainclude “he other creatives aren’t here to say their piece and it fair doesn’t sense appreciate that would be right,” while originater Christine Vachon was ponderably more honest when she talked the ill-overweighted project from San Sebastián.

“The idea that [Todd’s] time was misincluded and that a movie is not a result of those years of toiling seally with Joaquin… That is the tragedy to me,” Vachon shelp. “And that I can’t get over, that we as a cultural community, lost the opportunity to have another movie by Todd Haynes. That is fair criminal.”

Haynes will serve as jury plivent at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, which initiates off in February, while the Marrakech Film Festival wraps tomorrow.