Facts: If you ever slipped on a leotard and tights in the mid-to-late '90s, there's a solid chance you either wanted to be like Center Stage's Jody Sawyer (or Zoe Saldana's Eva Rodriguez, Tbh, our vote for the best goddamn dancer in the American Ballet Academy) or Sara Johnson, the Chicago ballerina with big Juilliard dreams. Made during Julia Stiles' successful teen movie run (which coincided with her modern-retelling-of-a-popular-William-Shakespeare-play phase), 2001's Save the Last Dance—which dropped suburban Sara into an inner city Chicago high school, where she naturally finds love with the one(!) successful Black male student, played by Sean Patrick...
- 1/12/2021
- E! Online
Jeff Nichols, director of such acclaimed hits as Mud, Take Shelter and this year’s Midnight Special, is currently in attendance at the ongoing Toronto Film Festival to promote Loving, the civil rights romance that places Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga front and center.
It’s set to open on November 4, but Nichols is already thinking further afield, with Deadline revealing today that the esteemed filmmaker is circling 20th Century Fox’s redo of Alien Nation. A remake of the 1988 sci-fi thriller that originally starred James Caan and Mandy Patinkin as a frankly unforgettable extra-terrestrial, the outlet notes that Nichols is being eyed to write and direct this modern overhaul, welcoming a reunion with Loving producers Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sara Greene. The real question now is, will Michael Shannon make his third collaboration with Jeff Nichols?
Conjecture aside, Deadline writes that Fox is reportedly keen to get this Alien Nation...
It’s set to open on November 4, but Nichols is already thinking further afield, with Deadline revealing today that the esteemed filmmaker is circling 20th Century Fox’s redo of Alien Nation. A remake of the 1988 sci-fi thriller that originally starred James Caan and Mandy Patinkin as a frankly unforgettable extra-terrestrial, the outlet notes that Nichols is being eyed to write and direct this modern overhaul, welcoming a reunion with Loving producers Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sara Greene. The real question now is, will Michael Shannon make his third collaboration with Jeff Nichols?
Conjecture aside, Deadline writes that Fox is reportedly keen to get this Alien Nation...
- 9/9/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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