Michael Shannon will make his directorial debut with the film project Eric Laruewhich is based on the Brett Neveu show that premiered in 2002 at Chicago’s Red Orchid Theater, of which Shannon is a founding member. Neveu will adapt the script and this story deals with pretty heavy topics.
The story follows Janice, “17-year-old Eric’s mother, who shot and killed three of her classmates. As Janice faces a meeting of the other boys’ mothers and a long-delayed visit to her son in prison, the story is not about violence, but about what we choose to think and do to survive the trauma.
Shannon said in a statement: “Eric Larue it has so much to say about our country, about the way we try (sometimes rather ineptly) to deal with the trauma of living here, which is so insidious because most of the time it does not present itself openly in concrete terms. Like most great stories, Eric Larue play at the macro and micro level at the same time. When I read the script, I immediately knew I had to direct it. I saw it. I heard it. I could feel it. And I wanted to make sure it got the right touch in all of its aspects, because it’s an extraordinarily delicate thing at heart.
He added: “I find it interesting to align with artists who possess the most vivid imagination, the most rigorous yet empathic moral senses and the most passionate and rigorous disciplines to create worlds and stories that contribute to our experience and understanding of what it is to be a being. human in this day and age and, in particular, in this country “.
Neveu was inspired to write the comedy after the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. It was also shared that Shannon was directing the comedy. Traitor, which is a new reinterpretation of Neveu An enemy of the people, “When a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. That shoot led Neveu to adapt his original work into the film Shannon will direct. ”
Filming for the film is expected to be shot in Wilmington, NC. Shannon will soon be seen in the action movie High speed train.
Source: Deadline
by Joey Paur
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