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Deadline’s Read nan Screenplay bid featuring nan astir talked-about scripts during awards play continues pinch Blue Moon, nan Robert Kaplow-penned communicative astir nan effect connected famed lyricist Lorenz Hart of his real-life breakup pinch his longtime philharmonic theatre partner, nan composer Richard Rodgers.
Blue Moon became nan 2nd successful a nostalgia double-bill this twelvemonth for head Richard Linklater, who besides put Nouvelle Vague, his snapshot of nan making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classical Breathless, retired into nan world.
Sony Pictures Classics landed Blue Moon and released it successful theaters successful October.
In Blue Moon, Ethan Hawke plays Hart, who struggled pinch intelligence wellness issues and progressively alcoholism during his life, steeling himself astatine nan Sardi’s barroom for nan 1943 opening nighttime of Oklahoma!, nan first outing of Hart’s erstwhile partner Richard Rodgers pinch Rodgers’ caller partner Oscar Hammerstein.
The thought had been successful nan useful since Kaplow sent Linklater a unsmooth book much than a decade ago; Kaplow antecedently wrote nan book for different Broadway play movie Linklater directed, 2008’s Me and Orson Welles. Kaplow constructed nan crux of nan Blue Moon story retired of a bid of correspondences betwixt Hart and an unidentified Yale student named Elizabeth. The book grew retired of nan letters and Kaplow asked questions like, What if they met? What if Hart loved her? The action was besides group successful erstwhile spot — nan barroom astatine Sardi’s, nan famed edifice successful nan New York theatre territory — which tightened nan framework of nan image of a man who felt nan civilization he helped create was passing him by, trying for a glimmer of happiness pinch a woman he whitethorn person loved.
Margaret Qualley plays Elizabeth, and Andrew Scott plays Rodgers (Scott won nan Supporting Actor Silver Bear astatine nan Berlin Film Festival wherever nan movie premiered). Bobby Cannavale plays nan loyal Sardi’s bartender Eddie. Hawke and Scott some scooped up Gotham Awards nominations, while Hawke landed a Best Actor nom and nan movie a Best Picture nom from nan Golden Globes.
The screenplay was recognized arsenic nan champion of nan twelvemonth by nan Chicago and St. Louis movie critics groups.
Linklater said he and Kaplow (and later Hawke, who was excessively young to play Hart erstwhile this task first surfaced) jell because they are “guys from different decade.”
‘He’s a historian, he’s a romantic, he really likes to jump into these moments successful history,” Linklater says of Kaplow. He called nan resulting movie “a crazy, perverse idea, to spot nan triumph of this deed philharmonic [Oklahoma!] but done nan eyes of nan aged lyricist.”
Read nan screenplay below.
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