June Squibb is back over the title with Sony Pictures Classics ”Eleanor the big one“Beat theaters September 26. The 95-year-old Oscar-nominated” Nebraska “star, whose sleeping action comedy “Thelma” charmed audience last year, leads Scarlett JohanssonDesident Debut – Written by Tory Kamen – I What Sony Pictures Classics describes as a “comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear will be the stories we tell.”
The log line reads: “I ‘Eleanor the Great’, June Squibb gives to a lively life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who, after a devastating loss, tells a story that takes his own dangerous life. ‘Ejiofor, who also shows up is Erin Kellyman, Jessica.
The film is also set to appear on TIFF in September and premiered in the UN some consideration for Cannes in May. Kate Erbland wrote in her Indieview review The “Eleanor the Great” is “a little predictable, a little bizarre, a little fun and very sad, but it is also an ambitious swing on which movies can still be (and what kind of stars can fill them).”
Discuss the project with ThrThe Johansson said: “It would be easier to earn something that was the sequel to a movie of $ 180 million or a genre film that was subpar. To get much, much, much less money for an independent film With an original story that has a main actor who was 94 was very, very, very challenging. “She added that filming in New York also presented her own challenges. It once looked as if we could get the majority of our money from an independent financing company and then all the way down to the thread, so that they could do so, we would have to completely disassemble the entire plot device that drives the film’s narrative engine. It was just crazy.”
However, the film was gathered in no small part because of the collective contributions from not only Johansson, but the rest of its stellar -producing team. In a May edition of IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking: What no one says to youProducer Judsamine Burgum said that “authenticity over everything” is most important in the industry. “When you are a young person, just like starting in the industry, you can feel a lot of pressure to have all the answers. It is competitive and you want to prove that you are the right person for the job, but the secret is really just curiosity and life.”
See the trailer below for “Eleanor the Great”, in theaters everywhere September 26.
