In what is being described as Election meets American Beauty, the upcoming dark comedy film The Decline of F*cking Western Civilization is set to be auteur director Greg Araki’s next project. Stars Ashton Kutcher (FX’s The Beauty) and Alison Brie (Together) are set to lead the ensemble cast, with Jesse Williams in talks for a third major role.
Production on the upcoming The Decline of F*cking Western Civilization has just begun thalisis Wednesday in Los Angeles, shooting from a script by Kevin W. Koehler with revisions by the director. The upcoming Araki film comes on the heels of his last project, sex-comedy I Want Your Sex, which was released earlier this summer and starred Cooper Hoffman, Olivia Wilde, and Charli xcx, among others.
Araki is mostly known for his boundary-pushing Queer cinema features, including Mysterious Skin, The Living End, and Kaboom. Plot details for The Decline of Western F*cking Civilization are currently being kept under wraps. For more updates, watch this space.
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