The acclaimed filmmaker of Parallel Mothers and Pain and Glory says ‘the story is very intimate.’
Giddy up, cowboys!
“It could be like my answer toBrokeback Mountain,” he said.
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal will star in ‘Strange Way of Life,’ Pedro Almodovar’s “answer” to ‘Brokeback Mountain.'.Tommaso Boddi/WireImage; Leon Bennett/Getty Images
Almodovar, after all, previously considered to direct 2005’sBrokeback Mountainbefore Ang Lee stepped in.
The Oscar-winning film starredHeath LedgerandJake Gyllenhaalas sheep herders who strike up an affair in 1960s Wyoming.
Now, Almodovar has another opportunity to make a Western.
Pascal confirmed his involvement on Instagram last April when heshared videoof Almodovar talking aboutStrange Way of Life.
“One of them travels through the desert to find the other,” Almodovar prefaced toIndieWire.
“There will be a showdown between them, but really the story is very intimate.”
“And it’s not gratuitous,” he clarified.
Strange Way of Life, it seems, could be that movie.
