Bryan Cranston on working with Richard Linklater on ‘Last Flag Flying,’ taking on a role played by the iconic Jack Nicholson, and reuniting with Larry David for ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’
Ethan Hawke says five years after each movie, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and he decide if they should make another. 2018 is five years since ‘Midnight.’
Following the career of Richard Linklater can give you the best kind of creative whiplash. He went from the aging romance of Before Midnight to the coming-of-age epic Boyhood, to the college bro comedy Everybody Wants Some!! Linklater’s next movie sounds like yet another departure, another major shift in subject and tone, back to more serious material. It’s called Last Flag Flying, and it was announced today it will premiere as the Opening Night Film of the 2017 New York Film Festival.
Richard Linklater is about to get behind the camera again this year to film Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, an adaptation of a 2012 bestselling novel about a restless Seattle housewife who becomes a recluse and disappears right before a big family vacation, prompting her husband and daughter to go looking for her. Cate Blanchett will play Bernadette, and today it was announced that Kristen Wiig is in talks to play Audrey, Bernadette’s nightmare neighbor.