Eshom and Ian Nelms’ indie thriller Small Town Crime has completed a casting spree that has locked down the likes of Octavia Spencer and John Hawkes in key roles, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
There, they’ll be joining Anthony Anderson and Robert Forster in the Nelms’ latest feature, which has already entered production.
If the core ensemble wasn’t impressive enough, THR also goes on to reveal that Small Town Crime has attracted quite the supporting cast too, enlisting the likes of Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, Don Harvey, James Lafferty, Jeremy Ratchford, Caity Lotz and Dale Dickey.
John Hawkes will be serving as the narrative crux, though, stepping into the well-worn shoes of “an alcoholic ex-cop who finds the body of a young woman and, through an act of self-redemption, becomes hell-bent...
There, they’ll be joining Anthony Anderson and Robert Forster in the Nelms’ latest feature, which has already entered production.
If the core ensemble wasn’t impressive enough, THR also goes on to reveal that Small Town Crime has attracted quite the supporting cast too, enlisting the likes of Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, Don Harvey, James Lafferty, Jeremy Ratchford, Caity Lotz and Dale Dickey.
John Hawkes will be serving as the narrative crux, though, stepping into the well-worn shoes of “an alcoholic ex-cop who finds the body of a young woman and, through an act of self-redemption, becomes hell-bent...
- 5/24/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Photo credit: Getty Images
Screenwriter-director Tate Taylor has been named recipient of the Writers Guild of America, West.s 2012 Paul Selvin Award for his adapted screenplay for the civil rights-era drama The Help.
The Guild.s Selvin Award recognizes written work which embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties. Filmmaker Taylor will be honored at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Sunday, February 19, at the Hollywood Palladium.
.Tate Taylor.s adapted screenplay for The Help artfully distills the empowering essence and core emotional truths of Kathryn Stockwell.s novel, translating it into a film that forcefully illustrates how ordinary people can impact positive social change. Evoking a specific time and place, the film.s message is ultimately universal and remains relevant today. Tate.s honor is well-deserved . and his script does Paul Selvin.s legacy proud by conveying the continuing power of the written word,. said Wgaw President Christopher Keyser.
Screenwriter-director Tate Taylor has been named recipient of the Writers Guild of America, West.s 2012 Paul Selvin Award for his adapted screenplay for the civil rights-era drama The Help.
The Guild.s Selvin Award recognizes written work which embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties. Filmmaker Taylor will be honored at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Sunday, February 19, at the Hollywood Palladium.
.Tate Taylor.s adapted screenplay for The Help artfully distills the empowering essence and core emotional truths of Kathryn Stockwell.s novel, translating it into a film that forcefully illustrates how ordinary people can impact positive social change. Evoking a specific time and place, the film.s message is ultimately universal and remains relevant today. Tate.s honor is well-deserved . and his script does Paul Selvin.s legacy proud by conveying the continuing power of the written word,. said Wgaw President Christopher Keyser.
- 1/30/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Help, which opens today, is a blunt, poignant, yet charming look at the uneasy relationship between black maids and their white employers in the pre-Freedom Riders Deep South. Through a sensitive, well-crafted script by Tate Taylor and outstanding performances from a nearly all-female cast: Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, The Help manages to convey both the heart and heartlessness of a relationship that many Americans rarely thought about until recently.
The movie is told from the point of view Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Stone), who is well on her way to Southern spinsterhood, being an unmarried, recent college graduate. Returning home from Ol' Miss to figure out how to make a living as a writer, Skeeter reunites with her childhood friends, led by the uptight racist, Hilly Holbrook (Ron Howard's daughter, Bryce).
Although from the same social class, Skeeter is clearly not one of these women: young,...
The movie is told from the point of view Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Stone), who is well on her way to Southern spinsterhood, being an unmarried, recent college graduate. Returning home from Ol' Miss to figure out how to make a living as a writer, Skeeter reunites with her childhood friends, led by the uptight racist, Hilly Holbrook (Ron Howard's daughter, Bryce).
Although from the same social class, Skeeter is clearly not one of these women: young,...
- 8/10/2011
- by Dara Nai
- AfterEllen.com
DreamWorks Pictures Emma Stone and Viola Davis in “The Help”
Before agreeing to produce “The Help,” the movie adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel about black domestic workers in 1960s Mississippi, DreamWorks Studios head Steven Spielberg needed some assurance. Over breakfast in London, he told producer Chris Columbus—director of the first two “Harry Potter” films, as well as “Home Alone,” among others—that the only way he was going to back the production was if Mr. Columbus agreed...
Before agreeing to produce “The Help,” the movie adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel about black domestic workers in 1960s Mississippi, DreamWorks Studios head Steven Spielberg needed some assurance. Over breakfast in London, he told producer Chris Columbus—director of the first two “Harry Potter” films, as well as “Home Alone,” among others—that the only way he was going to back the production was if Mr. Columbus agreed...
- 8/5/2011
- by Rachel Dodes
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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