Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis' No-Budget DIY 'The Canyons' Starts Shooting

Financed through Kickstarter, 'The Canyons' has started shooting. The only description on IMDb:

• Youth, glamor, sex and Los Angeles, circa 2012.

Not a lot to go on, but with Bret Easton Ellis writing you can fill in the blanks. Here's a rundown from the Kickstarter page.



What Schrader told Anne Thompson:

"Everyone works for free, we're casting on Let It Cast, we've done 300 auditions and some screen tests, and will shoot four weeks in July."

Here's a still, first shooting day, from the Facebook page.

The atmospheric LA portrait-slash-trailer that rolled out about a month ago.

Works for me.

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