Festival Predictions

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jody Hill’s Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter

Published on November 26, 2016

It’s more with HBO’s “Vice Principals,” and “Eastbound & Down,” than oddball goofball offering in the Sundance preemed The Foot Fist Way (2006) and tonally edgy Observe and Report (2009) where Jody Hill, alongside
creative collaborator Danny McBride has built his comedic strong-arm. A positively intriguingly titled third feature film that is being kept under wraps is centered around a young protagonist – and so we imagine there could be some moral decay in The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter. Lensing wrapped in July, so this is definitely ready to supersede and replace the lies of National Lampoon’s Vacation’s Griswold family. Josh Brolin, Scoot McNairy and newbie Montana Jordan star.

Gist: Co-written by John Carcieri, Jody Hill and Danny McBride, this is about Jaden, a cool and confident sixth-grade boy (Montana Jordan), who is supposed to be bonding with his father on a hunting trip, but Jaden wants to do anything but!

Production Co./Producers: Scott Rudin (Yeh Din Ka Kissa)

Prediction: Premiere category, SXSW and or Tribeca.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).