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2012 Sundance Predictions: Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed
An ad that was popularized by Jay Leno's hedlines segment might just be the winning ticket that Sundance is looking for in its Premieres category. What Safety Not Guaranteed has going for it is a filmmaker making his first fiction feature debut in Colin Trevorrow, lensing from Benjamin Kasulke who unloaded plenty of items in Park City last year and it has a cast comprised of Kristen Bell, Aubrey Plaza, Jake M. Johnson, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Sundance regulars Mark Duplass and Lynn Shelton.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Chadd Harbold’s Revenge for Jolly!
Chadd Harbold got his first taste for the Sundance experience with the 2009 short film, Asshole and now via Brian Petsos' screenplay (he also produces and toplines the pic) will make his feature debut. Revenge for Jolly! has a huge ensemble cast working for it including Oscar Isaac, Elijah Wood, Ryan Phillippe, Kristen Wiig and Adam Brody, this could be a high premium acquisitions comedy that would normally grab a Premieres category showing.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Phil Dorling’s Predisposed
If everything works out as planned, it'll be deja-vu for Philip Dorling and Melissa Leo again as Predisposed, the 2009 accepted short film with Leo playing the character of Penny has been elongated into Predisposed...a drama that might be this year's Down to the Bone for its mother battling addiction portions and which happens to include Jesse Eisenberg and Tracy Morgan. This should be a strong contender for a U.S Dramatic Comp spot at the fest this year.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Julia Dyer’s The Playroom
Having John Hawkes cast in your film doesn't assure a playdate in Park City, but Hawkes plus having shown your first film (Late Bloomers) at the film festival way back in 1996 might help in spades to receive a sophomore showing showcase which would be the case for Julia Dyer's The Playroom. If included, this would surely be included in the U.S Dramatic Comp.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I'd normally be weary of the results when a novelist gets behind a camera to adapt their own project, but Stephen Chbosky's first outing as a director (1995's The Four Corners of Nowhere) premiered at the fest and he should get to bring his sophomore project based on his 1999 novel. Will The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a novel about an unconventional thinker be unconventional in design? If so, then this might. along with its huge cast receive an invite to the fest's Premieres section.
