Paul Schrader Talks ‘Master Gardener,’ Follow-Up to ‘The Card Counter’

Paul Schrader, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival on Friday, is planning to start shooting thriller “Master Gardener” in February, with Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver starring, and the third role to be played by a young woman of color.

Zendaya was his first choice, but they couldn’t agree on the fee, he told an audience at the Swiss festival.“Master Gardener” is about a horticulturist torn between two women, one old enough to be his mother and the other young enough to be his daughter.“I was thinking about that guy, but then two women showed up.

He is having romantic relations with both, but what I liked the most is that now, they can talk to each other.

What would happen in ‘Taxi Driver’ if Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster went out to get coffee?”At Zurich, Schrader presented his drama “The Card Counter,

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