Only a day later it was announced that the actor Paul Mescal (Normal people) joined the cast of Ridley Scott Gladiator 2we learned that Mescal has joined Richard Linklaterthe 20 year old movie, Cheerfully we go forward. Mescal replaced Blake Jenner in the film project, who had previously shot scenes for the film, although he exited the project shortly after allegations of domestic violence against the actor by his ex-wife resurfaced, Supergirl star Melissa Benoist.
The film is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed stage musical, and the decades-long project is in the same vein as his previous work, Childhoodduration 12 years.
Mescal joins previously cast actors Ben Platt And Feldstein cap, and plays “Franklin Shepard, a talented Broadway composer who abandons his stage career in New York and all his friends to produce films in Los Angeles. Like the play, the musical begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and flashes back in time, showcasing snapshots of the defining moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he became. Feldstein will play Frank’s best friend, theater critic Mary Flynn, while her real friend Platt will play Charley, Frank’s regular lyricist.
Sondheim’s musical was itself based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufmann And Moss Hart. In 2019, sources indicated that the film would be shot in reverse chronological order, as the play and musical end when the characters are in their 20s and just starting their entertainment careers.
“I saw it for the first time and fell in love with it Cheerfully back in the 80s, and I can think of no better place to spend the next 20 years than in the world of a Sondheim musical,” Linklater said in a statement to the New York Times. “I don’t take this many years of experience lightly, but it seems to me the best, perhaps the only way to do justice to this story on film,” added the director, who is also producing the film together with Jason Blum And Jonathan Marc Sherman.
via: Above the Line
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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