Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley and extra will star in Blue Moon, an upcoming new film from Richard Linklater.
Deadline experiences that Ethan Hawke is ready to reunite with Richard Linklater as soon as once more for Blue Moon, a drama which dives into the ultimate days of Lorenz Hart, one half of the songwriting group Rodgers & Hart.
Along with Hawke, Blue Moon can even characteristic Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra), and Andrew Scott (Ripley). Manufacturing will kick off in Dublin, Eire this summer time. Sony Photos Classics has acquired the worldwide rights for the undertaking, which has been scripted by Robert Kaplow. The movie might be set “primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening evening of Oklahoma!, which marked Rodgers’s first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s alternative.“
“Robert, Ethan and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life,” Linklater stated in a press release. A spokesperson for Sony Photos Classics added: “Almost a year ago, Rick, Ethan and John reached out to us with Robert Kaplow’s amazing script Blue Moon. Helping them over the following months to bring it together has been incredibly exciting and now, on the verge of production, with this fantastic cast and crew in place and Rick at the helm, we are thrilled to finally announce it and bring the film to audiences everywhere in the world.” Along with directing Blue Moon, Linklater can even produce alongside Mike Blizzard and John Sloss.
Blue Moon will mark the ninth collaboration between Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke. Beginning with Earlier than Dawn, the pair labored collectively on The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, Earlier than Sundown, Quick Meals Nation, Earlier than Midnight, and Boyhood. Linklater’s most up-to-date movie was the critically-praised Hit Man, which stars Glen Powell as a strait-laced professor who discovers his hidden expertise as a pretend hitman. He meets his match in a shopper who steals his coronary heart and ignites a powder keg of deception, delight, and mixed-up identities. The movie is now streaming on Netflix and you may try a evaluation from our personal Chris Bumbray proper right here.
