John Waters, a legendarily subversive filmmaker, is returning to the director’s chair after a hiatus of eighteen years. He’s going to adapt his own novel, “Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance,” and serve as both writer and director on the film. According to Deadline, Waters has been hired by Village Roadshow Pictures to create and helm Liarmouth. Marsha “Liarmouth” Sprinkle is the protagonist of Liarmouth, a “funny, filthy tale of sex, criminality, and familial dysfunction” set in the seedy world of con artists and suitcase thieves. She is on the run and must, for the first time in her life, confess the truth since she is hated by everyone she encounters, even dogs, children, and her own family.
In an interview, Waters said he was “thrilled to be back in the movie business, hoping to impart crazy delight to adventuresome viewers throughout the world” for his first directorial effort since 2004’s A Dirty Shame. That company in Baltimore that When Waters first broke out, it was with the low-budget cult masterpiece Pink Flamingos (1972), a celebration of depravity that starred the counterculture drag queen Divine. Divine went on to act in most of the Waters’ following films until his death in 1988.
One of his films, 1981’s Polyester, was shot in “Odorama,” in which the audience was given scratch-and-sniff cards, allowing them to experience the movie’s most pungent moments. The openly gay Waters delighted in shocking complacent audiences, assaulting their senses (and senses of decency) in any way possible. Films like Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, and Hairspray grew somewhat more popular as Waters’ career continued into the ’80s and ’90s, and acquired a loyal fanbase on VHS. Hairspray was later converted into a hit Broadway musical, which was then adapted into a film in 2007. Waters’ charisma on screen earned him cameo roles in films including Something Wild, Sweet and Lowdown, and Seed of Chucky; he also guests starred on The Simpsons’ “Homer’s Phobia,” an episode that was nominated for both an Emmy and a GLAAD Media Award.
A Dirty Shame, starring Tracy Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, and Selma Blair, was a return to his earlier, more disturbing work, but its poor performance at the box office effectively ended Waters’ filmmaking career till today. During his filmmaking hiatus, he continued to write and act, publishing several books and making guest appearances on shows like Search Party, Law & Order: SVU, and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. He even got to portray one of his heroes, gimmick-obsessed b-movie director William Castle, on Feud: Bette & Joan.
Steve Rabineau and Village Roadshow Pictures will adapt Waters’ debut novel, Liarmouth, which was released in May by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In a new film adaptation of his novel, “Liarmouth,” John Waters makes his directorial return.
John Waters, a legendarily subversive filmmaker, is returning to the director’s chair after a hiatus of eighteen years. He’s going to adapt his own novel, “Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance,” and serve as both writer and director on the film. According to Deadline, Waters has been hired by Village Roadshow Pictures to create and helm Liarmouth.
Marsha “Liarmouth” Sprinkle is the protagonist of Liarmouth, a “funny, filthy tale of sex, criminality, and familial dysfunction” set in the seedy world of con artists and suitcase thieves. She is on the run and must, for the first time in her life, confess the truth since she is hated by everyone she encounters, even dogs, children, and her own family.
In an interview, Waters said he was “thrilled to be back in the movie business, hoping to impart crazy delight to adventuresome viewers throughout the world” for his first directorial effort since 2004’s A Dirty Shame. That company in Baltimore that When Waters first broke out, it was with the low-budget cult masterpiece Pink Flamingos (1972), a celebration of depravity that starred the counterculture drag queen Divine. Divine went on to act in most of the Waters’ following films until his death in 1988. One of his films, 1981’s Polyester, was shot in “Odorama,” in which the audience was given scratch-and-sniff cards, allowing them to experience the movie’s most pungent moments.
The openly gay Waters delighted in shocking complacent audiences, assaulting their senses (and senses of decency) in any way possible. Films like Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, and Hairspray grew somewhat more popular as Waters’ career continued into the ’80s and ’90s, and acquired a loyal fanbase on VHS. Hairspray was later converted into a hit Broadway musical, which was then adapted into a film in 2007. Waters’ charisma on screen earned him cameo roles in films including Something Wild, Sweet and Lowdown, and Seed of Chucky; he also guests starred on The Simpsons’ “Homer’s Phobia,” an episode that was nominated for both an Emmy and a GLAAD Media Award.
A Dirty Shame, starring Tracy Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, and Selma Blair, was a return to his earlier, more disturbing work, but its poor performance at the box office effectively ended Waters’ filmmaking career till today. During his filmmaking hiatus, he continued to write and act, publishing several books and making guest appearances on shows like Search Party, Law & Order: SVU, and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. He even got to portray one of his heroes, gimmick-obsessed b-movie director William Castle, on Feud: Bette & Joan.
Steve Rabineau and Village Roadshow Pictures will adapt Waters’ debut novel, Liarmouth, which was released in May by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.