Details emerging on Wachowski siblings' latest mind-warper

Last December, we heard a flurry of weird news about the Wachowski brothers: we learned that they are apparently at work on a sci-fi movie about the Iraq war. We learned that lefty political commentator Arianna Huffington is in it. And we finally confirmed that Larry Wachowski had officially become a woman.

Not much has been heard from the Matrix creators since, but now the Onion AV Club has offered a few updates. The site says that the pair have finished a script and are now shopping the film around, and it describes the project as a "'hard R' love story that takes place in the near future, then flashes back several years to the current war to explore a homosexual relationship between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi."

The site also quotes Jesse Ventura, who confirmed he has a role in the film:

"Wait til you hear what they did. They brought me, and they brought Arianna Huffington in after me. Arianna was there, and they had her looking like Cleopatra. What they did… Do you remember what John Travolta looked like in that horrible film Battlefield Earth? They put multicolored dreadlocks on me all the way to here. They gave me this crazy beard that was hanging down pointed, looked like Travolta, right? And they put a third eye in the middle of my forehead. Because what this is, is this is a hundred years in the future, and they wanted me to talk about the current war in Iraq and how I felt about it. And so I got to vent, looking like this maniac in this whole outfit."

This is sounding like a fascinating debacle. I'm one of the few who enjoyed the craziness of the last two Matrix movies, so I suspect I'll find plenty to enjoy in this movie. I'm getting a distinct Southland Tales vibe from this thing.

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