Paul Schrader has done much more than Listen to Taylor Swift And Writing TV reviews of Ambien recently. In a conversation with Screen at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where he is currently chairing the jury of the feature film competition, First Reformed Director and Taxi driver The screenwriter announced that he is working on not one but two new films.

The first is called Not responsible (Latin for “a sick mind”), the previously teasedwill be “a noir (about) a kind of sexual obsession.” The filmmaker said Screen that he has already started casting for the film’s ensemble cast, which will consist of “two brothers, their crazy mother, a younger girl they both fall in love with, and their wives.” While he didn’t reveal any names, the actors paying the two brothers are apparently “well known in the international industry.” Hmm. Whoever they are, they’ll have to prepare for a quick shoot. “This is one of the rare cases where I had the financing before I had the cast,” Schrader continued. “I can shoot a movie in 20 days, $5 to $6 million. I can get $2.5 million in equity and the rest through pre-sales. Then I can make a movie! With final cut and everything. Everyone works to scale.”

While Schrader still has to make “a very quick revision” Compositionsit is not the only film he is currently working on. “I hope to write the new film before November and have another bullet in the gun,” he said of his other film, The foundations of philosophyfor which he reportedly already has a draft. In keeping with the title, the new draft will follow “an intellectual university philosophy professor” and will be in the style of his recent trilogy, which includes: First Reformed, The card counterAnd Master Gardenersaid the director.

It is not as if the director has been resting on his laurels before. He has also just premiered his latest film, Oh, Canadastarring Richard Gere, Uma Thurman and Jacob Elordi, in Cannes in May. However, one should not expect any of these projects to land in the streaming space any time soon. Schrader’s recent films “have all been rejected by Amazon and Netflix,” he said recently diversity. “If you’re not one of the privileged babies – and we know who these (filmmakers) are because they get all the attention – if you’re not one of the babies, you’ll just fly into the Bermuda Triangle of streaming and the last thing you see is the contrails of your film.” If you Oh, Canada before that happens, his distributor According to reports, a cinema screening in December.