Ryan Gosling and his Blue Valentine director, Derek Cianfrance, will reunite for the upcoming The Place Beyond the Pines(which is one of the loose translations, from Mohawk to English, of the word ‘Schenectady’).

The pairs previous collaboration, Blue Valentine, is a critically acclaimed 2010 drama that debuted at the 26th Sundance Film Festival and has spawned best actor/actress nominations for Ryan Gosling and his co-star Michelle Williams as well as an Oscar nomination for Williams (the Academy Awards show is February 27, 2011).

It seems as if this movie, that is set to film and take place in Schenectady, is in the good hands of Cianfrance and Gosling.

Per Derek Cianfrance during the promotion for Blue Valentine;

I have a film called The Place Beyond the Pines, which is all about fathers and guns, and it has motorcycles and guns in it. One thing I wanted to do with Blue Valentine was to make a really violent film without guns in it. The next one will have guns, so it will be easier. No studio yet. We’re in the middle of financing it right now.

The director also told E! News’ Mark Malkin;

“It’s a crime drama,” he told me yesterday at the Critics’ Choice Awards in Hollywood last night (January 14,2010). “It takes place in Schenectady, New York. It’s all about, like, the sins of the fathers playing out in the lives these two sons.

I just came across this news and it’s fairly exciting to me as a fan of Ryan Gosling and a Schenectady resident.

Update (2/15/2011):

Don Rittner (Schenectady historian and head of the Schenectady Film Commission) has not recieved word of this movie being filmed here in Schenectady.

“I don’t think they’re filming here,” Rittner said. “But I’m going to find out why and I’m going to harass them,” he joked.

Update (2/19/2011):

From The Business Review; Schenectady to welcome movie crew

It appears as if, in fact, The Place Beyond the Pines will be filming in Schenectady within the next year.

Update (5/9/2011):

It appears as if Bradley Cooper (Wedding Crashers, The Hangover) will be starring in the movie alongside Gosling.

Word is Cooper will be playing a rookie police officer that crosses paths with the bank robbing, professional motorcycle riding character played by Gosling. From this meeting the confrontation spirals into a generational feud.