Linklater 12-Year Project called ‘Boyhood: Year 7’

According to Production Weekly, Richard Linklater will be shooting for 3 days in Austin…not for a music video or commercial, but for his infamous, twelve-year project which is now past the midway point in its completion and finally has some working title. The to-be-released in 2013 experimental film features Ellar Salmon, Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette. Salmon made his screen debut with the project in 2002 at a tender pre-school age, and Linklater has been been filming snip-its tracking the physical transformation from childhood to teenagedom to eventual early adulthood on what I imagine is a yearly basis. The actor had a part in recently Linklater’s Fast Food Nation. If you ask me, this accounts for a pretty cool artifact for Salmon – much in the same vein of the Harry Potter actors. 

PW reveals that the film will be going by the title of Boyhood: Year 7 – which may be a tribute to one of the most endearing documentary film series called the 7-Up series. No images of the film have been released, but the narrative features a parent-child relationship that follows a boy from the first through the 12th grade and ends with him going off to college. Hawke plays the errant father who pops in now and then, but the key of the film is the relationship between the mother and son.