When David Gordon Green showed up at the last Sundance film festival he came packing two different reels. The first was his latest project Snow Angels (the drama eventually got picked up by WIP) and the other was a film that he produced for Craig Zobel and that was picked up quickly by Magnolia Pictures. Zobel a second unit director for Green’s Undertow and a production manager for Green’s All the Real Girls got the backing from his friend for The Great World of Sound.
Written by George Smith and Zobel, GREAT WORLD OF SOUND is the story of two struggling talent agents searching for the next – or simply nearest – best thing. This evokes conflicted hucksters from Willy Loman and the Maysles Brothers’ SALESMAN to the seedy charmers of seventies Altman. With real-life audition footage weaved into the fictional narrative, Zobel’s provocative debut explores the outer limits of our desire for celebrity, where big dreams beget bigger illusions, and fame always has its price.
The pic gets released on September 28th. For the films awfully funny and instantly likable trailer click on the poster one sheet below.
