Hillbilly Elegy – Ron Howard's FIlm for Netflix

[RobertPiusParticipant Joined: Nov 22nd, 2012 Topics: 202 Posts: 1283 View Predictions]

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Will this be completed by the end of this year? Funny Reese Witherspoon joked on twitter the night of the Oscars that she wanted to make a film with the two of them…….and now someone is.

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[gabarnes43Participant Joined: Jan 6th, 2018 Topics: 9 Posts: 369 View Predictions]

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I don’t think that this film should come out the same year as Sunset Boulevard, mainly because Close and Adams will go up against each other.

If its the year after then they will both probably already have Oscars.

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[StegeoParticipant Joined: Feb 26th, 2019 Topics: 1 Posts: 427 View Predictions]

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^tbh I see this being released earlier than Sunset

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[TheDreamingHeadParticipant Joined: Jan 8th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 140 View Predictions]

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M: The Original wrote:

King’s current prospects are TV bound. Colman is also tethered to a TV obligation.

Close has already collected so many TV accolades so she just doesn’t care about it anymore. I hope she keeps this spirit of doing as many Oscar-caliber roles as she can. I think the Academy will give her chances after chances after the losses, and she is taking advantage of this fact to get nominated again, and may turn out to be one of the most nominated actors. I mean plenty of actors struggle to get nominated again after winning despite giving Oscar caliber roles!

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[M: The OriginalParticipant Joined: Aug 5th, 2014 Topics: 46 Posts: 5405 View Predictions]

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RobertPius wrote:

Will this be completed by the end of this year? Funny Reese Witherspoon joked on twitter the night of the Oscars that she wanted to make a film with the two of them…….and now someone is.

Hopefully she’s still committed to the idea.

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[M: The OriginalParticipant Joined: Aug 5th, 2014 Topics: 46 Posts: 5405 View Predictions]

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TheDreamingHead wrote:

Close has already collected so many TV accolades so she just doesn’t care about it anymore. I hope she keeps this spirit of doing as many Oscar-caliber roles as she can. I think the Academy will give her chances after chances after the losses, and she is taking advantage of this fact to get nominated again, and may turn out to be one of the most nominated actors. I mean plenty of actors struggle to get nominated again after winning despite giving Oscar caliber roles!

When Close did TV it wasn’t yet trendy but a means of staying financially stable while remaining visible to the public.

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[AtypicalParticipant Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 291 Posts: 18751 View Predictions]

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Close and Adams together in the same film? That’s crazy. I’m glad that the both of them are rebounding from those Oscar losses well and moving forward with new projects full steam ahead. Ron Howard though, ugh. I’m not expecting much at all from him, but maybe the ladies will make this worthwhile seeing.

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[Jeffrey KareParticipant Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 195 Posts: 2721 View Predictions]

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Ron Howard has made some great films such as Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, and Rush.

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[AtypicalParticipant Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 291 Posts: 18751 View Predictions]

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None of those are “great” films, and “A Beautiful Mind” is absolute trash.

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[Jeffrey KareParticipant Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 195 Posts: 2721 View Predictions]

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Gabriel Basso is set to star in the leading role of J.D. Wade.
https://deadline.com/2019/04/gabriel-basso-hillbilly-elegy-ron-howard-amy-adams-glenn-close-jd-vance-1202594988/

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[LGr2Participant Joined: Oct 16th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 20 View Predictions]

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It sounds interesting, I’ll admit.

Being tethered to Netflix probably means it’ll be the first film Howard’s directed since Angels and Demons to actually make money.

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[Jeffrey KareParticipant Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 195 Posts: 2721 View Predictions]

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Atypical wrote:

None of those are “great” films, and A Beautiful Mind is absolute trash.

I couldn’t disagree more. I happen to be one of the biggest defenders of not only A Beautiful Mind, but also its success at the Oscars. And didn’t even like Apollo 13? Grant it, I know a forty-something year old lady who didn’t like it either just because she thought it was too long and too depressing.

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[AtypicalParticipant Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 291 Posts: 18751 View Predictions]

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Jeffrey Kare wrote:

I couldn’t disagree more. I happen to be one of the biggest defenders of not only A Beautiful Mind, but also its success at the Oscars. And didn’t even like Apollo 13? Grant it, I know a forty-something year old lady who didn’t like it either just because she thought it was too long and too depressing.

Gold star for you then. And yes, that’s what I said. You can read, yay.

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[Dennis El MarParticipant Joined: Jan 21st, 2019 Topics: 1 Posts: 118 View Predictions]

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So I read the book this weekend just to see where they could go with the film, and there were definitely parts about the book that I disliked but assuming Adams is the mother and Close is the grandmother, they’ll have VERY meaty roles that could end up doing well come awards season and I’m so excited to see what they end up doing with these characters. I wonder if the screenplay will just focus more on character development or if it’ll flesh out some of the more conservative political analysis included in the book; if so, it’ll be interesting because the book features somewhat politically divisive rhetoric on welfare and rural voters. For me personally, Howard is hit or miss; for every masterful film he’s made, there’s been one that doesn’t really do it for me, but it certainly has the potential to be really interesting.

Also, Gabriel Basso signing on just makes me miss The Big C even more lol

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