Richard Linklater returned to form as a critical darling with "A Scanner Darkly" (released in the same year), 2009's "Me and Orson Welles" garnering an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and 2012's "Bernie" receiving a 91% rating. In 2014 he released a film in the making for 12 years titled "Boyhood", which received overwhelming critical acclaim. His daughter Lorelei Linklater co-stars in the film as the sister of the central character. For a while Linklater was attached to direct a remake of "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" for Warner Brothers. In 2014, however, he dropped the project in favor of working on a
Viy (2014 film) Viy (2014 film) Viy 3D (, internationally known as Forbidden Empire, and in the UK as The Forbidden Kingdom) is a 2014 dark fantasy film produced by Russian and Ukraine Film Group and Marins Group Entertainment and loosely based on the Nikolai Gogol story "Viy". The film was released in cinemas in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan on 30 January 2014, in the United States on 22 May 2015 and in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2015. The film is directed by Oleg Stepchenko, based on the first manuscript of Nikolai Gogol. The film has been in production since December