Despite his directorial debut “Sympathy For Delicious” unfortunately going up in critical flames at Sundance, Mark Ruffalo has revealed he’s already laying the foundations and writing a script for what will be his sophomore helming effort.
“I’m working on a script right now,” Ruffalo told BlackBook. “It’s about a single dad raising a kid in Hollywood on his own. He’s an ex-porn star, ex-street poet, ex-actor, ex-junkie. It is really funny and really poignant, and they have a beautiful relationship between the two of them. It’s good, I think. The big part right now is bringing in the humor of it. Mining for the gold nuggets is the real work.”
Sounds pretty interesting, even if it’ll potentially tread the same ground as Sofia Coppola’s forthcoming Hollywood father-daughter tale, “Somewhere.” Either way, with Ruffalo penning the script he hopes to avoid some of issues that plagued ‘Sympathy.’ “I learned a lot making [‘Sympathy’]. I made every mistake you can possibly make,” the actor concludes, as his debut remains distribution-less. [via Vulture]