Paul Mescal Replaces Blake Jenner in Richard Linklater’s 20-Year ‘Merrily We Roll Along’
The Sondheim adaptation is expected to wrap production roughly 20 years from now.
The Sondheim adaptation is expected to wrap production roughly 20 years from now.
“Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” ignited Hawke’s “adult relationship with film” following his turn in “Dead Poets Society.”
Exclusive: Linklater is appealing the decision, which he sees as a bias against both rotoscope animation and independent productions.
Linklater said that “everybody has that story of getting screwed with their first project,” but remains grateful the film was greenlit.
“Don’t cut categories and say, ‘Well, nobody cares who edits.’ Bullsh*t.”
“There’s a sense of pride and connection to telling this story, ’cause I know my mom was in there working on it too,” Black said.
Richard Linklater’s first animated movie since “A Scanner Darkly” is a lushly drawn, Netflix-funded trip back to the summer of 1969.
The filmmaker tells IndieWire he drew from “Boyhood” even more than “Waking Life” for nostalgic look at the ’60s space race. Watch the new trailer here.
Linklater also gives an update on his animated Apollo 11 moon mission movie.
“School of Rock” ends with the band giving an encore, with AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll).”
“I often think about it,” Delpy said of leaving the industry, although she’s sticking around for now.
Netflix offers impossible love in India that’s no Bollywood, and Linklater’s childhood remembrance of the Apollo moon mission as a hybrid rendering.