Richard Linklater Sets Next Movie ‘Blue Moon’, Starring Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott
With Hit Man now in the rearview mirror, after dropping on Netflix earlier this month and prepping an international theatrical rollout, Richard Linklater is setting eyes on his next project, Blue Moon. The story, conceived by him, star Ethan Hawke, and writer Robert Kaplow (who also penned Me and Orson Welles), follows Lorenz Hart, part of the music duo Rodgers & Hart, in his final days.
The pic is supposed to start shooting this summer, according to Deadline, and will also star Bobby Cannavale, Margaret Qualley, and Andrew Scott. It will be co-financed and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Classics. Renovo Media Group is also backing it financially.
Per the trade, “The film is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, which marked Rodgers’s first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.”
Richard Linklater is not showing any signs of stopping. He recently wrapped production on Nouvelle Vague in Paris, his first French-language film, and has also been working on Merrily We Roll Along, his adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical starring Paul Mescal that will be shot across multiple decades and will not be ready for release until 2041. The Hit Man numbers haven’t hit yet, but early indicators seem to be very positive for the Netflix acquisition.
Andrew Scott is currently enjoying some success after his Netflix miniseries Ripley and his acclaimed turn in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers (a movie that just got a Criterion Collection release), and rode it into the set of the third Benoit Blanc film, Wake Up Dead Man, which is currently filming.
Margaret Qualley starred in Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls earlier this year with Geraldine Viswanathan, and will be seen next in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness. She also had a small part in Poor Things. Next up, she has the spiritual sequel to Drive-Away Dolls: Honey, Don’t!, as well as a part in the Glen Powell-led Cannes package Huntington.
Cannavale has a few projects in the pipeline, most notably, Ti West’s MaXXXine. Hawke has also many projects in the works, including Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone 2, the sequel to the 2021 low-key hit.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
