Время Армагеддона (Armageddon Time)

Трамп, школа, 80-е. Что-то не сходится.)

Этот то, чем знаменита школа, учился-то он в ней задолго до Грэя.

В фильме сыграет Кейт Бланшетт

Присоединились Роберт Де Ниро, Оскар Айзек, Энн Хэтэуэй и Дональд Сазерленд

Синопсис

Queens, New York. The 1980s. 12-year-old Paul Graff is growing up in a warm and rowdy family that includes his grandfather, who encourages his artistic aspirations. His best friend is John Crocker, an African-American boy. The two are inseparable and prone to mischief, but after an incident in which John and Paul share “tea that makes you laugh” (marijuana), Paul’s parents decide to transfer him to the private prep school his older brother Ted attends. Here, the student body is almost exclusively white, privileged - and prejudiced (it’s also Donald Trump’s alma mater). Together, the boys concoct a risky scheme to escape their lives and run away to Florida…

James Gray Says Amarcord & The 400 Blows Inspired His Next Film Armageddon Time

While everything in the filmmaking world, as in most industries, is up in the air right now, if all goes according to plan, James Gray will embark on the production of his next film Armageddon Time early next year. A return to smaller-scale filmmaking after his space epic Ad Astra, the film is inspired by his mid-80s upbringing in Queens’ Kew-Forest School, and also involves its principal as well as board member Fred Trump. Led by Robert De Niro, Cate Blanchett, Donald Sutherland, Oscar Isaac, and Anne Hathaway, Focus Features recently picked up the worldwide rights for around $15 million and now we have new details––including two classics that are serving as inspiration.

 

“It’s very simply kind of a memoir about when I was twelve and in the fall of 1980 in New York about my best friend and my relationship with him and when I moved from public school to private school,” Gray tells producer Rodrigo Teixeira in a recent chat. “And how my relationship with him was destroyed in the process. So it’s a family story, but in a way, it’s kind of a love story between myself and my good friend, who I never saw again after I changed schools. And the idea is to make a film about how class and racism divides us, because he was black, my friend.”

 

He adds, “Of course the Trump family is tangentially involved because they were very heavily involved in the school that I wound up going to. But it’s a film I’m going to make, if you had to compare it to something, it would be very much in the vein of Two Lovers. Very personal film and very warm––as warm as I can make it, filled with as much humor as I can make it and as much love as I can make it.”

 

When asked if it will be his version of the Federico Fellini classic Amarcord, he said, “It is certainly one of my favorite movies. I can’t say that, because that all of sudden gives me credit to be up there with Fellini, which I would never do. But certainly Amarcord and The 400 Blows, these are movies that I thought about quite a bit while working on it, and that’s the mood of those movies––a very open, warm, humane film and to love the people in it.”

 

Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Federico Fellini’s Amarcord were both inspired by each respective director’s own childhood and stand as touchstones when it comes to taking an autobiographical lens while still making a formally stunning work of art, so it’s clear to see how Gray sees inspiration there. As much as I loved how the director was able to expand his scope in The Lost City of Z and Ad Astra, it’ll be refreshing to see him return to a more personal, Two Lovers-esque approach.

Бланшетт сыграет сестру Дональда Трампа

Written and directed by Gray, the feature is produced by his Ad Astra partner, Brazil’s RT Features with the backing of Focus Features. It draws on the filmmaker’s own experiences as a student at the Kew-Forest School in Queens which counts Donald Trump among its alumni. The former US president’s sister delivered a speech to Gray and his fellow pupils.

 

“Cate Blanchett is going to play Donald Trump’s sister which is the weirdest sentence I have ever said,” Gray says. “She’s only in it for three days, she’s doing me a favour. She has a really long speech to deliver, it’s a real scene-stealer. I’ve tried to recreate the real speech as best I could from memory.”

Старт съемок запланирован на осень

По словам продюсера Родриго Тейшейры, съемки стартуют в ноябре

Судя по информации на сайте Production Weekly, в съемках примет участие Энтони Хопкинс

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The indie feature film “Armageddon Time” is seeking talent for two principal roles. The film is from director James Gray (“Ad Astra”). Roles are the intelligent and sarcastic Paul, a young boy from Queens, for White male talent, aged 11–14, and his best friend, the moody, cocky, and whip smart Jonathan, for Black male talent, aged 12–14. Shooting is mid-October to late November in the NYC, New Jersey area. Talent will be paid SAG rates.

Судя по информации на сайте Production Weekly, в съемках примет участие Энтони Хопкинс

Подтвердили Хопкинса плюс присоединился Джереми Стронг

Yahoo

At one point the cast for “Armageddon Time” boasted Robert De Niro, Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac and Donald Sutherland, with the plan that production would’ve begun early in 2021, but that group is no longer attached.