Shane Carruth Heads To Hollywood As He Gears Up Big Budget Nautical Adventure 'The Modern Ocean'

Shane Carruth, the director of "Primer" and "Upstream Color," has largely be known for a few things up to now: creating beautiful, cinematic mindbenders and wearing as many hats as possible on his productions. He's been director, cinematographer, composer, editor, sound, and more on his pictures, partly out of necessity, given they were made far from the studio system, but also allowing him total control on his finished production. But for this next movie, Carruth is going Hollywood.

Deadline reports that the filmmaker has inked a deal with agency WME, who will help him get things rolling on "The Modern Ocean" which is being described as a "big-budget" "nautical action adventure" movie. Now, before delusional diehard fans cry "sellout!," or wonder if Carruth will compromise everything that makes him special, this isn't the first time he's flirted with Hollywood. When he was trying to get "A Topiary" made, Steven...