I talked briefly about the casting for Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut 'Synecdoche' before, now called 'Synecdoche, New York' apparently. A review of the script has turned up online and the reaction is, well, exciting but confusing. Full of comments like this..

"Synecdoche" will make "Adaptation" and "Eternal Sunshine" look like instructional industrial films. No one has ever written a screenplay like this. It's questionable whether cinema is even capable of handling the thematic, tonal and narrative weight of a story this ambitious.

The review comes from the LA Times and the journalist obviously likes it, but has difficulty seeing how such a script will translate to the screen. I can understand that confusion, without witnessing 'Adaptation' on screen I would class the script as unfilmable, but it takes a writer with clarity like Kaufman, and a director with some vision like Spike Jonze to pull off such a project.

Whether or not Charlie Kaufman can do the job of screenwriter and director remains to be seen, but with a guy as obviously talented as he is, I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Read the script review here

Found over at FilmIck