I’m not the biggest fan of Gus Van Sant, I know quite a few people that worship the ground he walks on and I concede that he has made some excellent films (Good Will Hunting anyone?), but I really couldn’t stand Elephant and after I watched it, my opinion of him was considerably lower. Nevertheless, his film Paranoid Park was received well at Cannes and now he has started work on a new project entitled The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, so I thought I’d better mention it. The film will be a big-screen adaption of a 1960s novel by Tom Wolfe, which is as bizarre as it sounds (well, maybe not quite that strange). According to FirstShowing.net it follows the writer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey, on an LSD-fueled journey across America. So, drugs, 1960s America and a journey? Sounds like Easy Rider….it could be good you know. That’s all that’s available so far anyway, so I’ll keep my eyes for anymore info.