Shane Carruth has made two movies, Primer and Upstream Color, with a long quiet period between them. Both those films were totally independent, low-budget affairs; both films achieved far more than the humble bottom line of either movie would lead anyone to assume. Now, for his third movie, Carruth is pulling in some money — if not “big-budget” by studio standards we’re definitely talking about far more money than he’s used before — and if things work out that will allow his script The Modern Ocean to be realized on screen just as he wants it.
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