Kirsten Stewart. Check. Sundance Film Festival entry? Check. Road Movie formula? Check. Almost 18 months since its world premiere? Um check again. I imagine that the more a film goes without a distributor, the more the asking price falls, which may or may not be the case for a film that has Twilight’s Stewart in the line-up.
With an empty spot in their slate, Samuel Goldwyn have picked up Udayan Prasad‘s The Yellow Handkerchief – a film that flew so low on the radar that I didn’t even know it was playing at the festival while I was in attendance which in itself sounds bizarre since it has got some fine talent attached – I like this Redmayne kid from Savage Grace and Maria Bello has fine perfs in A History of Violence and Thank You for Smoking working for her on her resume.
Loosely based on a Pete Hamill short story adapted by Erin Dignam, is a drama about strangers from two generations who reach out for companionship during a road trip through post-Hurricane Katrina Louisiana. A autumn/winter release is planned.
