Anton Corbijn On His Next Film Switzerland About Writer Patricia Highsmith

BAFTA-nominated director Anton Corbijn may just be one of the most interesting filmmakers working today. Aside from directing Control, which tells the short life story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, Corbijn also helms the occasional Depeche Mode music video and some other music videos for bands like Coldplay, U2, and Arcade Fire. While at Sundance Film Festival to promote his latest film—and his very first feature documentary—Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), Corbijn talked to Collider about present and future projects. During the interview, Corbijn revealed to our own Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub that he’s already working on a brand-new feature film, and it’s called Switzerland. In Corbijn’s own words, Switzerland is “A story about Patricia Highsmith, who was the writer of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train for [Alfred] Hitchcock, and stuff like that.” Even though it sounds like a biopic, the director stressed that it will be a fictional story with biographical el