Oliver Stone, 77, currently the Chomsky of Hollywood filmmakers, is still fully engaged, plugging away and making docs — his latest one, “Lula,” premiered yesterday.
From ’86 through ’97 Stone was a force to be reckoned with— Salvador (’86), Platoon (’87), Wall Street (’87), Born on the Fourth of July (’89), JFK (’91). You could extend the streak, I suppose, to Natural Born Killers (’94), which I don’t like, and his underrated 1997 pulp-noir “U-Turn.”
Speaking to Deadline, he’s confirming currently working on one last project, which he says is an “important narrative,” most likely political:
I’d like to, I think I have one more in me. I do have a narrative film in mind, but I can’t tell you what it is […] I know you’re going to ask that. But it is an important narrative. I’d like to have one more film if I can get it done. It’ll be done in the next year, that’s for sure.
It sounds like Stone will need the funding for this one. Maybe European backers, we’ll see, but I’m sure he’ll find a way to get it made. Stone hasn’t made a feature since 2016’s “Snowden,” which received mixed reviews and has been lost in time.