Thanksgiving film canon is quite small. Part of that is understandable due to the fact that in a film landscape that has become increasingly more international the American holiday (apologies to the Canadian Thanksgiving on October 14th) would get pushed aside. Plus, Christmas is always around the corner, and all of the marketing in being ‘a Christmas film’ that affords a pretty simple campaign and a built-in audience of such films is right there for studios to fall back on. Even the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (the central cultural touchstone of Thanksgiving in visual media), while designed to celebrate the holiday, always ends on a note of Christmas with the Santa Claus float closing the parade–itself the inciting plot point of the two versions of Miracle on 34th Street, both Christmas films. Thanksgiving is even hemorrhaging its own calling card to Christmas. It is truly the middle-child between Halloween and Christmas.
- 11/21/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Ang Lee celebrates his 64th birthday on October 23, 2018. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has worked in a variety of genres and styles to explore the lives of people around the globe. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at 12 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in Taiwan in 1954, Lee’s interest in film brought him to NYU’s graduate program, where he worked as a crew member on classmate Spike Lee‘s thesis project, “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads.” He directed his first feature, “Pushing Hands” (1991) at the age of 37.
Lee followed up his debut with back-to-back international successes, each one scoring Oscar nominations as Best Foreign Language Film: “The Wedding Banquet” (1993) and “Eat Drink Man Woman” (1994). In both films, the director explored the kinds of complex familial relationships that would animate many of his stories.
He was then drafted by Hollywood to...
Born in Taiwan in 1954, Lee’s interest in film brought him to NYU’s graduate program, where he worked as a crew member on classmate Spike Lee‘s thesis project, “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads.” He directed his first feature, “Pushing Hands” (1991) at the age of 37.
Lee followed up his debut with back-to-back international successes, each one scoring Oscar nominations as Best Foreign Language Film: “The Wedding Banquet” (1993) and “Eat Drink Man Woman” (1994). In both films, the director explored the kinds of complex familial relationships that would animate many of his stories.
He was then drafted by Hollywood to...
- 10/23/2018
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
There may be no writer alive today who better captures the manic, fevered, paranoid style in 21st-century America than Ben Fountain. His award-winning novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, about an ambivalent Iraq War grunt whose platoon will soon be celebrated at the Thanksgiving halftime performance of a Dallas Cowboys game, both captured and skewered the ballpark patriotism of a country whose citizens pay little mind to the endless wars fought in their name halfway around the world, and to the young men and women who fight them.
Fountain’s new book,...
Fountain’s new book,...
- 9/25/2018
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Ang Lee's latest film is an unconventional film being distributed, on the whole, in a very conventional way...
In the race to set forth the future of cinema through various technological advances, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk feels like a major casualty. Once tipped for the Oscar race, the latest film from Ang Lee has bombed at the worldwide box office and been all but ignored by critics and awards bodies. This is partly due to complications in exhibiting the film in its intended format, because cinemas haven't adapted for this war drama as they did for major blockbusters of recent years.
Avatar successfully made the case for 3D, like the gift of fire from James Cameron to studio arsonists who post-converted every tentpole movie in sight, while Peter Jackson's Hobbit films were less successful in pioneering higher frame rates, inadvertently exposing the actors' make-up and making the audience dizzy.
In the race to set forth the future of cinema through various technological advances, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk feels like a major casualty. Once tipped for the Oscar race, the latest film from Ang Lee has bombed at the worldwide box office and been all but ignored by critics and awards bodies. This is partly due to complications in exhibiting the film in its intended format, because cinemas haven't adapted for this war drama as they did for major blockbusters of recent years.
Avatar successfully made the case for 3D, like the gift of fire from James Cameron to studio arsonists who post-converted every tentpole movie in sight, while Peter Jackson's Hobbit films were less successful in pioneering higher frame rates, inadvertently exposing the actors' make-up and making the audience dizzy.
- 2/13/2017
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: How 'Saving Private Ryan' Helped Prepare Vin Diesel for 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk brings to life a harrowing story from the Iraq War, which meant a grueling, two-week boot camp for the cast -- all except for one.
"I did my boot camp in Saving Private Ryan," Vin Diesel told Et's Nischelle Turner during a recent sit-down. "It was a scheduling thing really, but luckily, I did a very intense boot camp for Saving Private Ryan. I did a self-imposed boot camp. I went away for a week. I bought equipment, and trained on a beach and got ready to be a soldier."
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From three-time Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk tells the story of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn), who becomes a hero after an agonizing battle in Iraq and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, viewers learn what...
"I did my boot camp in Saving Private Ryan," Vin Diesel told Et's Nischelle Turner during a recent sit-down. "It was a scheduling thing really, but luckily, I did a very intense boot camp for Saving Private Ryan. I did a self-imposed boot camp. I went away for a week. I bought equipment, and trained on a beach and got ready to be a soldier."
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From three-time Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk tells the story of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn), who becomes a hero after an agonizing battle in Iraq and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, viewers learn what...
- 11/8/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
The success of recent films like American Sniper and Lone Survivor has paved the way for a new crop of war movies that isolate individual soldier stories, many of them true, and moviegoers are feasting on them. In November alone there are two, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, while Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk awaits us this July. But it's Billy Lynn -- based on Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel of the same name -- that takes...
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- 10/17/2016
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
We're on a bit of a war binge right now. The success of recent films like American Sniper and Lone Survivor has paved the way for a new crop of war movies that isolate individual soldier stories, many of them true, and moviegoers are feasting on 'em. In November alone there are two, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, while Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk awaits us this July. But it's Billy Lynn -- based on Ben Fountain's...
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- 10/17/2016
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
We're on a bit of a war binge right now. The success of recent films like American Sniper and Lone Survivor has paved the way for a new crop of war movies that isolate individual soldier stories, many of them true, and moviegoers are feasting on 'em. In November alone there are two, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, while Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk awaits us this July. But it's Billy Lynn -- based on Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel of the same name -- that takes the rare approach of actually acknowledging our obsession with romanticizing war stories through cinema, and when the film tackles those issues head on it's incredibly refreshing and thought-provoking in a way we usually don't...
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- 10/15/2016
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Despite its technological wizardry and fancy title, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” is a contained drama about one introverted man struggling with repressed emotions. If those ingredients sound out of whack, that’s the essence of Ang Lee’s intermittently admirable and erratic movie. At its core, “Billy Lynn” simply focuses on its leading man’s divided allegiances as he faces postwar trauma and gets lauded as a hero; well-acted and sustained by a smart, if at times jagged screenplay, it might work just fine on the stage. But the filmmaker’s decision to shoot the entire movie with the ambitious trifecta of 3D, 4k resolution and 120 frames-per-second technology produces hyperreal images out of whack with the routine events that dominate the screen.
With one exception — the titular walk, a dazzling football halftime show that brings the character’s conflict to the foreground – “Billy Lynn” barely looks more impressive...
With one exception — the titular walk, a dazzling football halftime show that brings the character’s conflict to the foreground – “Billy Lynn” barely looks more impressive...
- 10/15/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Ang Lee’s latest foray into forward-thinking filmmaking promises viewers nothing less than a brand new cinematic experience, one that the “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” director believes actually verges on being an entirely new medium. Lee previously utilized 3D technology for his 2012 “Life of Pi” — earning a Best Director Oscar along the way — and his desire to keep pushing boundaries to deliver new breakthroughs to both the industry and his audience has only increased since then.
For his “Billy Lynn,” based on the novel of the same name by Ben Fountain, Lee decided to push into a new realm, one that went far past 3D technology. Lee also utilized 4K resolution (2K is the current standard) for the film, along with a mind-blowing new frame rate of 120 frames per second (the current standard is 24fps, and when Peter Jackson amped up the frame rate of his “Hobbit” series,...
For his “Billy Lynn,” based on the novel of the same name by Ben Fountain, Lee decided to push into a new realm, one that went far past 3D technology. Lee also utilized 4K resolution (2K is the current standard) for the film, along with a mind-blowing new frame rate of 120 frames per second (the current standard is 24fps, and when Peter Jackson amped up the frame rate of his “Hobbit” series,...
- 10/15/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk has been set to have its world premiere October 14 at the New York Film Festival. The bow of the TriStar Pictures pic comes ahead of its wide release November 11 as it positions itself for awards season. The pic, based on Ben Fountain’s novel, is the first full-length narrative film shot in 4K, native 3D at the ultra-high rate of 120 frames-per-second — the fest event will be the first time the format will be screened publicly…...
- 8/22/2016
- Deadline
As the summer movie season charges at us with all its big-budgeted blockbusters, we're beginning to also get a tease of what the end of 2016 will bring to theaters, too. The first trailer for December's Assassin's Creed has dropped (watch it here), and now comes our first look at Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, based off the novel by Ben Fountain and directed by Ang Lee (Life of Pi). The sure-to-be awards contender, about a soldier wrestling with life after warfare, hits theaters on November 11. Check out the trailer. Featuring a surprisingly eclectic cast, with everyone from Vin Diesel and Kristen Stewart to Steve Martin, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk was also shot at 120 frames per second (the highest frame rate for film) in 4K and 3D, so even if...
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- 5/12/2016
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Ang Lee gives us a brutally honest look at war and heroism in his latest film.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, based on the novel by Ben Fountain, tells the story of 19-year-old war hero who survives battle in Iraq and is brought home for a victory tour. Through flashback, it contrasts American's perception of what Billy went through, and what he actually experienced. The film will be scripted by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire).
The film promises to be a profound mediation on our perception of heroism, and there isn't really a more sensitive and careful director to take on that challenge, as Lee is the man responsible for films including Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi. The film has an interesting ensemble cast, which includes Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Steve Martin, and newcomer Joe Alwyn.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, based on the novel by Ben Fountain, tells the story of 19-year-old war hero who survives battle in Iraq and is brought home for a victory tour. Through flashback, it contrasts American's perception of what Billy went through, and what he actually experienced. The film will be scripted by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire).
The film promises to be a profound mediation on our perception of heroism, and there isn't really a more sensitive and careful director to take on that challenge, as Lee is the man responsible for films including Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi. The film has an interesting ensemble cast, which includes Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Steve Martin, and newcomer Joe Alwyn.
- 5/12/2016
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
The first footage from "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee's upcoming Iraq War film "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" at Sony Pictures is set to screen April 16th during Lee's keynote address at Nab Show's Future of Cinema Conference in Las Vegas.
The footage will be shown in its intended display format: 4K, 3D, and at 120 frames-per-second, the first time a feature film has ever been displayed that way. Only a handful of cinemas will likely be capable of displaying the film in its intended form when it opens in cinemas November 11th.
Based on the book of the same name by Ben Fountain, the Texas-set story follows the surviving members of a squad of soldiers who embark on a media tour at Texas Stadium as they prepare to return to Iraq. Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund, and Steve Martin star.
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The footage will be shown in its intended display format: 4K, 3D, and at 120 frames-per-second, the first time a feature film has ever been displayed that way. Only a handful of cinemas will likely be capable of displaying the film in its intended form when it opens in cinemas November 11th.
Based on the book of the same name by Ben Fountain, the Texas-set story follows the surviving members of a squad of soldiers who embark on a media tour at Texas Stadium as they prepare to return to Iraq. Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund, and Steve Martin star.
Source: THR...
- 3/7/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Connor4Real
Imogen Poots, Sarah Silverman and Tim Meadows will co-star in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Conner4real" from the Lonely Island trio, Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions. Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are directing and co-starring in the film.
Andy Samberg plays a rapper who reunites with his former boy band after his latest solo album flops. Silverman plays his sarcastic publicist, Meadows his overworked manager, and Poots his potential love interest. [Source: The Wrap]
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ang Lee's film adaptation of Ben Fountain's novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" has found its squad of Iraq War veterans to join Joe Alwyn in the title role. Also onboard are Makenzie Leigh as his Texas cheerleader love interest, Arturo Castro as Mango, Barney Harris as Sykes, Beau Knapp as Crack, Mason Lee as Foo, Brian 'Astro' Bradley as Lodis, and Ismael Cruz Cordova as Holiday.
Set entirely during football game,...
Imogen Poots, Sarah Silverman and Tim Meadows will co-star in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Conner4real" from the Lonely Island trio, Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions. Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are directing and co-starring in the film.
Andy Samberg plays a rapper who reunites with his former boy band after his latest solo album flops. Silverman plays his sarcastic publicist, Meadows his overworked manager, and Poots his potential love interest. [Source: The Wrap]
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ang Lee's film adaptation of Ben Fountain's novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" has found its squad of Iraq War veterans to join Joe Alwyn in the title role. Also onboard are Makenzie Leigh as his Texas cheerleader love interest, Arturo Castro as Mango, Barney Harris as Sykes, Beau Knapp as Crack, Mason Lee as Foo, Brian 'Astro' Bradley as Lodis, and Ismael Cruz Cordova as Holiday.
Set entirely during football game,...
- 5/20/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk has been given a release date.
The Hollywood Reporter announced that the film will be released on November 11 next year, which is Veterans Day in the Us.
An adaptation of Ben Fountain's 2012 novel of the same name, three-time Oscar winner, Ang Lee is directing.
Slumdog Millionaire screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has penned the adaptation alongside Jean-Christophe Castelli.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk follows a 19-year-old private who survives a battle in Iraq, along with his Bravo Squad unit.
Hailed as war heroes, he and the Bravo Squad are brought back to the Us for a promotional tour and appearance at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
The film will take place at the game, flashing back to events in the war and Billy Lynn's life.
The Hollywood Reporter announced that the film will be released on November 11 next year, which is Veterans Day in the Us.
An adaptation of Ben Fountain's 2012 novel of the same name, three-time Oscar winner, Ang Lee is directing.
Slumdog Millionaire screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has penned the adaptation alongside Jean-Christophe Castelli.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk follows a 19-year-old private who survives a battle in Iraq, along with his Bravo Squad unit.
Hailed as war heroes, he and the Bravo Squad are brought back to the Us for a promotional tour and appearance at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
The film will take place at the game, flashing back to events in the war and Billy Lynn's life.
- 4/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Arturo Castro (Broad City) has joined the cast of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee’s feature adaptation of the Ben Fountain novel. It follows a group of servicemen sent on a "victory tour" after returning from combat in Iraq. Billy Lynn and his comrades will return to battle after the tour ends with a halftime show of a Dallas Cowboys football game on Thanksgiving Day. Castro will play Marcellino “Mango” Montoya, a steady and skeptical member of Lynn’s Bravo…...
- 4/18/2015
- Deadline
Edging towards some sort of record for the most eclectic cast ever assembled, director Ang Lee has just added two more names to his roster for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker have signed up to join Steve Martin, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart and newcomer Joe Alwyn.There's no indication of who either will be playing yet, but it's the first time Diesel has turned out for anything other than an action role (Groot nothwithstanding) since Find Me Guilty in 2006. On that occasion he was working for Sidney Lumet, so clearly he's amenable to taking a risk for the right director.Tucker, meanwhile, has been quiet since Silver Linings Playbook in 2012, partly thanks to a lifestyle change since his Jackie Brown / Rush Hour heyday. But it's an interesting footnote that he was previously part of another unusually varied cast in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element.
- 4/9/2015
- EmpireOnline
Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker are the latest Hollywood superstars to be cast in Ang Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
The three-time Academy Award-winning director is bringing Ben Fountain's 2012 novel to the big screen.
Newcomer Joe Alwyn will have his first major role in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as the title character, a Us soldier whose unit is brought home from Iraq for a heroic 'Victory Tour'.
The film will follow Billy and his harsh drill sergeant (Garrett Hedlund) in their final 24 hours in the Us as they attend a football game before being shipped back to Iraq.
Kristen Stewart is appearing in the film as Billy's sister, while Steve Martin will make his big-screen comeback to play a Hollywood dealmaker angling for the rights to Billy's story.
Tucker and Diesel have now signed on for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as it nears its...
The three-time Academy Award-winning director is bringing Ben Fountain's 2012 novel to the big screen.
Newcomer Joe Alwyn will have his first major role in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as the title character, a Us soldier whose unit is brought home from Iraq for a heroic 'Victory Tour'.
The film will follow Billy and his harsh drill sergeant (Garrett Hedlund) in their final 24 hours in the Us as they attend a football game before being shipped back to Iraq.
Kristen Stewart is appearing in the film as Billy's sister, while Steve Martin will make his big-screen comeback to play a Hollywood dealmaker angling for the rights to Billy's story.
Tucker and Diesel have now signed on for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as it nears its...
- 4/8/2015
- Digital Spy
Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker are in talks to join the growing cast of director Ang Lee's film adaptation of the Ben Fountain's novel "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk," which is set up at TriStar Pictures, with the UK's Film4 and Studio 8 partnering up on the project. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" is described as a "razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq," which explores the national disconnect between the war at home, and the war abroad. The story follows the surviving members of the...
- 4/8/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Breaking: At TriStar, Ang Lee has rounded the A-list cast of his adaptation of the Ben Fountain novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by setting Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker to join newcomer Joe Alwyn, Steve Martin, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart, who were reported previously. The film will be shot in native 3D and 4K, and will look to innovate with revolutionary new high frame rate technology. Lee will set some more top talent for cameos. Bravo Company and…...
- 4/8/2015
- Deadline
Last fall it was confirmed that Ang Lee's next film would be an adaptation of the Iraq War novel "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain. Today THR brings us news of some rather interesting casting choices; both Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker are in negotiations for roles in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Diesel is course hot off the success of Furious 7 while Tucker is...apparently still acting. Here's the book synopsis from...
- 4/8/2015
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker have joined the cast of Ang Lee's upcoming film adaptation of Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" at TriStar Pictures.
Shot in native 3D and 4K, and aiming to be filmed at a high frame rate, the film unfolds in real time during the course of a football game (though does contain flashbacks). Joe Alwyn plays a 19-year-old private who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras.
His team are brought home by the U.S. administration for a promotional tour, culminating in the halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game. Unbeknownst to all, there is turmoil as the group faces an imminent return to the war.
Joe Alwyn, Steve Martin, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart also star in the film which Lee, Marc Platt, Stephen Cornwell, Rhodri Thomas and Simon Cornwell are producing. Filming begins this month.
Shot in native 3D and 4K, and aiming to be filmed at a high frame rate, the film unfolds in real time during the course of a football game (though does contain flashbacks). Joe Alwyn plays a 19-year-old private who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras.
His team are brought home by the U.S. administration for a promotional tour, culminating in the halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game. Unbeknownst to all, there is turmoil as the group faces an imminent return to the war.
Joe Alwyn, Steve Martin, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart also star in the film which Lee, Marc Platt, Stephen Cornwell, Rhodri Thomas and Simon Cornwell are producing. Filming begins this month.
- 4/8/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Kristen Stewart, 'Camp X-Ray' star, to join cast of 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' Kristen Stewart to join 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' movie After putting away her Bella Swan wig and red (formerly brown) contact lenses, Kristen Stewart has been making a number of interesting career choices. Here are three examples: Stewart was a U.S. soldier who befriends an inmate (Peyman Moaadi) at the American Gulag, Guantanamo, in Peter Sattler's little-seen (at least in theaters) Camp X-Ray. She was one of Best Actress Oscar winner Julianne Moore's daughters in Wash Westmoreland and the recently deceased Richard Glatzer's Alzheimer's drama Still Alice. She was the personal assistant to troubled, aging actress Juliette Binoche in Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria, which earned her a history-making Best Supporting Actress César. (Stewart became the first American actress to take home the French Academy Award.
- 4/4/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ang Lee continues to put together his troupe of actors for his upcoming movie, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, an adaptation of the Ben Fountain novel. Today we learn Kristen Stewart joins the cast, which will be lead by newcomer Joe Alwyn playing the title character as he and his Bravo squad mates have become heroes thanks to an embedded Fox News crew's footage of their firefight against Iraqi insurgents. During one day of their bizarre Victory Tour, set mostly at a Thanksgiving Day football game at Texas Stadium, they're wooed by Hollywood producers, smitten by Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, and share a stage at halftime with Beyonce. Guzzling Jack and Cokes and scuffling with fans, the Bravos are conflicted soldiers. Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) wrote the screenplay and Garrett Hedlund and Steve Martin co-star. Production begins later this month and some are suggesting this could be done for awards season this year,...
- 4/2/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Devil You Know
Damien Molony ("Being Human"), Karen Gillan ("Doctor Who") and Zawe Ashton ("Fresh Meat") are set to join Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ewen Bremner and Eddie Izzard in HBO's "The Devil You Know".
The show will look at the infamous Salem Witch Trials in 17th century New England as neighbour was set against neighbour leading a town to mass hysteria. Filming begins this Spring on Boston. [Source: io9]
Untitled Richard Pryor Biopic
Eddie Murphy is in talks to join the cast of Lee Daniels' untitled Richard Pryor biopic at The Weinstein Company. Oprah Winfrey and Kate Hudson are rumored for supporting roles.
Mike Epps is attached to star as the legendary late comedian and Murphy will play his father, LeRoy 'Buck Carter' Pryor, who was a boxer and WWII veteran. [Source: Variety]
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Beau Knapp ("Run All Night") has joined the supporting cast of Ang Lee's adaptation of...
Damien Molony ("Being Human"), Karen Gillan ("Doctor Who") and Zawe Ashton ("Fresh Meat") are set to join Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ewen Bremner and Eddie Izzard in HBO's "The Devil You Know".
The show will look at the infamous Salem Witch Trials in 17th century New England as neighbour was set against neighbour leading a town to mass hysteria. Filming begins this Spring on Boston. [Source: io9]
Untitled Richard Pryor Biopic
Eddie Murphy is in talks to join the cast of Lee Daniels' untitled Richard Pryor biopic at The Weinstein Company. Oprah Winfrey and Kate Hudson are rumored for supporting roles.
Mike Epps is attached to star as the legendary late comedian and Murphy will play his father, LeRoy 'Buck Carter' Pryor, who was a boxer and WWII veteran. [Source: Variety]
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Beau Knapp ("Run All Night") has joined the supporting cast of Ang Lee's adaptation of...
- 3/15/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a bit of a clumsy title, so I'm going to do my best not to write it out too many times in the paragraphs that follow, but just a week after director Ang Lee cast newcomer Joe Alwyn in the title role for his latest film, The Wrap reports veteran Steve Martin has officially signed on for the project. amz asin="B00655KLOY" size="small"The film is an adaptation of Ben Fountain's bestselling novel and centers on Billy Lynn (Alwyn) and his Bravo squad mates, who become heroes thanks to footage of the team's firefight against Iraqi insurgents taken by an embedded Fox News crew. The president brings the soldiers home for a victory tour before heading back to the frontlines, which includes a stop at a Thanksgiving Day football game at Texas Stadium where the men are wooed by Hollywood producers,...
- 3/4/2015
- by Jordan Benesh
- Rope of Silicon
Uprising: Director Bryan Singer (X-Men) is ready to take on a new challenge: transforming The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress into Uprising for the big screen. The 1966 novel by science-fiction master Robert A. Heinlein examines a revolt by a large colony on the moon against human rule on Earth. Marc Guggenheim (TV's Arrow) will write the screenplay for the retitled project. [Heat Vision] Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: Steve Martin will join director Ang Lee for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, an adaptation of a novel by Ben Fountain. Newcomer Joe Alwyn will star as the titular character, a soldier who comes home with his unit for a promotional tour after a well-publicized battle in Iraq, all the while knowing that further combat awaits. Garrett Hedlund is...
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- 3/4/2015
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Steve Martin is joining the cast of director Ang Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
Newcomer Joe Alwyn leads the film as a soldier whose unit is brought back to the Us temporarily after surviving an attack in Iraq.
The soldiers are given a celebration at a Dallas Cowboys football game, before being sent back into service in Iraq.
Martin has been cast as a slippery Hollywood producer who attempts to buy the film rights to Billy Lynn's (Alwyn) story, reports The Wrap.
Garrett Hedlund has already been cast as Lynn's drill instructor, while Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy will adapt Ben Fountain's novel for the screen.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk will be Martin's first live-action film role since 2011's critically-panned bird-watching comedy The Big Year.
Newcomer Joe Alwyn leads the film as a soldier whose unit is brought back to the Us temporarily after surviving an attack in Iraq.
The soldiers are given a celebration at a Dallas Cowboys football game, before being sent back into service in Iraq.
Martin has been cast as a slippery Hollywood producer who attempts to buy the film rights to Billy Lynn's (Alwyn) story, reports The Wrap.
Garrett Hedlund has already been cast as Lynn's drill instructor, while Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy will adapt Ben Fountain's novel for the screen.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk will be Martin's first live-action film role since 2011's critically-panned bird-watching comedy The Big Year.
- 3/4/2015
- Digital Spy
Later this year, we'll hear Steve Martin as the voice of the alien leader Captain Smek in the DreamWorks Animation film Home. Otherwise, it's been a few years since the actor appeared in a live-action film with The Big Year in 2011 being his last comedy appearance on the big screen. But that will change soon as Deadline reports Matin has taken a role in Ang Lee's next film, an adaptation of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, based on Ben Fountain's novel of the same name. Newcomver Joe Alwyn and Garrett Hedlund are already on board to star in the film about the heroic survivors of a battle in the Iraq War. More specifically, the story follows a 19-year old soldier whose squad survived a battle that was captured on embedded news cameras, making them instant heroes back home. So Lynn and his team get brought back to the United...
- 3/4/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Star Wars: Rebels
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star Sarah Michelle Gellar has joined the voice cast of Disney Xd's "Star Wars: Rebels" for its second season which is currently in production. The series recently wrapped its first season.
Details on which character Gellar will voice are being kept under wraps, but it is said to be pivotal. She'll join a cast that includes Freddie Prinze Jr., Vanessa Marshall, Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar, Taylor Gray and David Oyelowo. [Source: The Live Feed]
Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk
Steve Martin is set to join the cast of the Ang Lee-directed "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" for TriStar Pictures. Joe Alwyn is set as the title character and Garrett Hedlund is in line for another key role in the project which begins shooting next month.
An adaptation of the Ben Fountain novel, the story follows a 19-year-old private who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star Sarah Michelle Gellar has joined the voice cast of Disney Xd's "Star Wars: Rebels" for its second season which is currently in production. The series recently wrapped its first season.
Details on which character Gellar will voice are being kept under wraps, but it is said to be pivotal. She'll join a cast that includes Freddie Prinze Jr., Vanessa Marshall, Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar, Taylor Gray and David Oyelowo. [Source: The Live Feed]
Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk
Steve Martin is set to join the cast of the Ang Lee-directed "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" for TriStar Pictures. Joe Alwyn is set as the title character and Garrett Hedlund is in line for another key role in the project which begins shooting next month.
An adaptation of the Ben Fountain novel, the story follows a 19-year-old private who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras.
- 3/4/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Steve Martin is joining the cast of the Ang Lee-directed Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk for TriStar. Martin will join newcomer Joe Alwyn, with Garrett Hedlund in line for another key role. The adaptation of the Ben Fountain novel starts shooting in April. In the film, Bravo Company, and 19-year-old private Billy Lynn, survive a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras. They are brought home by the U.S. administration for a promotional tour…...
- 3/4/2015
- Deadline
British newcomer Joe Alwyn has landed the lead role in Oscar-winning film-maker Ang Lee's new film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
24 year old Joe (represented by Independent Talent) is set to graduate from Central School of Speech and Drama this year, and this is his first screen role.
The film is based on the Ben Fountain novel, and Joe is set to play 19-year-old American private Billy Lynn who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras. The group of American soldiers, known as Bravo squad, are sent home for a two-week break following the much-publicised firefight in which they were hailed as heroes. Their promotional tour, culminates at the spectacular halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game, all the while the soldiers are facing an imminent return to the war. Almost the entire movie takes place during the day of the game, with flashbacks to...
24 year old Joe (represented by Independent Talent) is set to graduate from Central School of Speech and Drama this year, and this is his first screen role.
The film is based on the Ben Fountain novel, and Joe is set to play 19-year-old American private Billy Lynn who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras. The group of American soldiers, known as Bravo squad, are sent home for a two-week break following the much-publicised firefight in which they were hailed as heroes. Their promotional tour, culminates at the spectacular halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game, all the while the soldiers are facing an imminent return to the war. Almost the entire movie takes place during the day of the game, with flashbacks to...
- 3/1/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Newcomer Joe Alwyn has been tapped to star in the title role of Ang Lee's upcoming Iraq war drama "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" for TriStar Pictures, Studio 8 and Bona Film Group.
Based on the Ben Fountain novel, Billy Lynn is a nineteen-year-old private in the U.S. military who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras. He and his team are brought home by the U.S. administration for a promotional tour, culminating at the halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game.
Almost the entire movie takes place during the day of the game, with flashes back to the underlying events, Billy's heroism, and his dealing with the imminent return to the war.
No official offer has apparently been made, but Alwyn is said to be the director’s choice after rising to the top of the pile last week. He apparently scored final...
Based on the Ben Fountain novel, Billy Lynn is a nineteen-year-old private in the U.S. military who survives a harrowing Iraq battle that is captured by news cameras. He and his team are brought home by the U.S. administration for a promotional tour, culminating at the halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game.
Almost the entire movie takes place during the day of the game, with flashes back to the underlying events, Billy's heroism, and his dealing with the imminent return to the war.
No official offer has apparently been made, but Alwyn is said to be the director’s choice after rising to the top of the pile last week. He apparently scored final...
- 2/26/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Untot
"Star Wars" actor Hayden Christensen has joined Kris Renkewitz's WW2 set action-horror film "Untot" at Solaris Entertainment. Greg O'Connor will produce and filming begins in New York City in March.
The story follows an elite military unit commanded by Lt. Fredrick Hank (Christensen) who is dropped behind enemy lines in the mountains of Poland in order to destroy a secret Nazi weapons facility. What they encounter is something they've never been trained for. [Source: THR]
Black Lung
Amanda Seyfried ("Mamma Mia") and Theo James ("Divergent") will headline the supernatural thriller "Black Lung" at 2929 Prods. and Cooper's Town Prods. Cary Fukunaga ("True Detective") will executive produce and filming begins this Summer.
Chase Palmer penned the script and will make his feature film directing debut on the project about a young wife whose premonition about a pending disaster saves her husband, but puts her under suspicion when an explosion entombs a group of miners.
"Star Wars" actor Hayden Christensen has joined Kris Renkewitz's WW2 set action-horror film "Untot" at Solaris Entertainment. Greg O'Connor will produce and filming begins in New York City in March.
The story follows an elite military unit commanded by Lt. Fredrick Hank (Christensen) who is dropped behind enemy lines in the mountains of Poland in order to destroy a secret Nazi weapons facility. What they encounter is something they've never been trained for. [Source: THR]
Black Lung
Amanda Seyfried ("Mamma Mia") and Theo James ("Divergent") will headline the supernatural thriller "Black Lung" at 2929 Prods. and Cooper's Town Prods. Cary Fukunaga ("True Detective") will executive produce and filming begins this Summer.
Chase Palmer penned the script and will make his feature film directing debut on the project about a young wife whose premonition about a pending disaster saves her husband, but puts her under suspicion when an explosion entombs a group of miners.
- 2/5/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
A bunch of filmmakers have been linked to all sorts of new projects in the past day or two. Here are the details:
James Marsh ("The Theory of Everything") has been slated to direct the Blueprint Pictures and BBC Films untitled project about amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first round the World Yacht Race in 1968. Firth will play Crowhurst, and shooting will begin in the spring.
Tate Taylor ("The Help") has come onboard to helm Warner Bros.’ untitled drama about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis which Robert Downey Jr. will produce. Mike Jones will write the script for the aftermath story of the 1945 sinking of the battleship in shark-infested Pacific waters.
Ang Lee has come onboard as director of the film adaptation of Ben Fountain's novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk". Most of the film takes place during a Thanksgiving Day football game...
James Marsh ("The Theory of Everything") has been slated to direct the Blueprint Pictures and BBC Films untitled project about amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first round the World Yacht Race in 1968. Firth will play Crowhurst, and shooting will begin in the spring.
Tate Taylor ("The Help") has come onboard to helm Warner Bros.’ untitled drama about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis which Robert Downey Jr. will produce. Mike Jones will write the script for the aftermath story of the 1945 sinking of the battleship in shark-infested Pacific waters.
Ang Lee has come onboard as director of the film adaptation of Ben Fountain's novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk". Most of the film takes place during a Thanksgiving Day football game...
- 1/28/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Ir's official, Ang Lee's next directorial effort following "Life of Pi" will be an adaptation of Ben Fountain's novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" for TriStar and Film4. Production is set to kick off this Spring says Deadline.
'Lynn' follows a 19-year-old soldier whose squad survived an Iraq battle which was captured on embedded news cameras. They are brought home temporarily for a promo tour and will return to fight after a halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game in Texas. Set during that game, we get flashbacks of what the soldier and his platoon mates went through.
Lee's next film was to be a Peter Morgan-scripted boxing pic about the Thrilla In Manila, but that project has been pushed back due to budgetary and visual effects concerns.
In other director news, "Anchorman" helmer Adam McKay is attached to direct and Seth Rogen is attached to star...
'Lynn' follows a 19-year-old soldier whose squad survived an Iraq battle which was captured on embedded news cameras. They are brought home temporarily for a promo tour and will return to fight after a halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game in Texas. Set during that game, we get flashbacks of what the soldier and his platoon mates went through.
Lee's next film was to be a Peter Morgan-scripted boxing pic about the Thrilla In Manila, but that project has been pushed back due to budgetary and visual effects concerns.
In other director news, "Anchorman" helmer Adam McKay is attached to direct and Seth Rogen is attached to star...
- 9/18/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Last we knew, Ang Lee's next project will be a 3D boxing movie, but according to The Wrap the Life Of Pi director is being considered by Film4 and The Ink Factory for an adaptation of the Ben Fountain book Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and he might end up directing it before the boxing flick. Fountain's novel was adapted by Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, and it has been described as "The Catch-22 of the Iraq War."...
- 9/15/2014
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
"Life of Pi" and "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee is the frontrunner to helm "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," a film adaptation of Ben Fountain's acclaimed Iraq War novel for Film4 and The Ink Factory.
The dark satire follows a ninteen-year-old Texas-born infantryman and his fellow U.S. servicemen who survive a firefight in Iraq in 2005. The Bush administration brings them home for a victory lap that leads them to the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium where they're honored during the team's Thanksgiving halftime show. Then they return to war.
Lee has been working on a 3D boxing film for Universal that will include the famed 'Thrilla in Manila' fight between Frazier and Ali, however that project is said to be on hold for now due to budgetary reasons.
Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire") has adapted the book while Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell and Rhodri Thomas are slated to produce.
The dark satire follows a ninteen-year-old Texas-born infantryman and his fellow U.S. servicemen who survive a firefight in Iraq in 2005. The Bush administration brings them home for a victory lap that leads them to the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium where they're honored during the team's Thanksgiving halftime show. Then they return to war.
Lee has been working on a 3D boxing film for Universal that will include the famed 'Thrilla in Manila' fight between Frazier and Ali, however that project is said to be on hold for now due to budgetary reasons.
Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire") has adapted the book while Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell and Rhodri Thomas are slated to produce.
- 9/12/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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