When news first hit that Richard Linklater would apply the extended shooting schedule first utilized on his Oscar winner “Boyhood” towards an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” some film fans wondered if they’d even be around to see the final film. Linklater enlisted indie darling Beanie Feldstein and Tony winner Ben Platt for the ambitious project, which will film over the course of 20 years. Now starring in Ryan Murphy’s “The Politician” on Netflix, Platt revealed that the cast has already shot the first sequence of the film, adding that Linklater’s ideal shooting schedule will hew as closely as possible to the timeline laid out in the original show.
“I really admire ‘Boyhood,’ and I thought when he came to me with the project that it was such a brilliant marriage of that concept with this material. I feel like people are hearing ’20-year musical’ and ‘Richard Linklater,...
“I really admire ‘Boyhood,’ and I thought when he came to me with the project that it was such a brilliant marriage of that concept with this material. I feel like people are hearing ’20-year musical’ and ‘Richard Linklater,...
- 10/11/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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