Stephen Graham To Star In ITV Neo-Nazi Drama ‘The Walk-In’
06.09.2022 - 17:41 / variety.com
Jennie Punter “The Maiden,” Graham Foy’s finely tuned story of adolescent mythmaking, togetherness and grief, has its world premiere Tuesday in Venice Days before heading to Toronto, but the film’s impressive international journey actually began in Cannes two years ago. Based in Toronto since 2008, Foy grew up in suburban Calgary where “Maiden” is set, spent teenage summers near the graffiti-covered railroad bridge and ragged ravine, where much of the film was shot, and, like one of the characters, was an avid skateboarder. He had been tapping away at the “Maiden” script — which draws from his experiences but is not autobiographical — for several years when his short “August 22, This Year” was selected for the 2020 Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
“It was the year the pandemic shut down Cannes, so we couldn’t go, but the festival did a lot for the filmmakers,” said Foy, who spoke to Variety from Venice last week, in advance of the festival. “The short filmmakers were invited to participate in Cannes’ Next Step development program, which helps short filmmakers make that jump to features,” he continued. “It was amazing to have that kind of access to people who do the same thing as you but don’t know your work. The feedback was extremely candid and honest.” After working up another draft of “Maiden,” Foy was then invited to a residency at Moulin d’Andé in Normandy, which he attended with the film’s producers — his F Films’ partner and wife Daiva Žalnieriunas, and MDFF’s Dan Montgomery (“Anne at 13,000 Ft.”). The script was worked through again. “I felt strongly that the structure had settled,“ Foy recalled. “We returned to Toronto and drove to Calgary to start prepping.” Casting Calgary actors Jackson Sluiter, Marcel Jiménez and
Stephen Graham To Star In ITV Neo-Nazi Drama ‘The Walk-In’
after 15 weeks, a move that is surprising even to some in his own party.Over the summer, the Supreme Court Roe V. Wade, essentially kicking the question of legal abortion back to the individual states; you might remember over the summer. In Graham's native South Carolina, the cut-off is 21 weeks and 6 days, (the state also has a parental consent law for minors).
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Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern are stepping out at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern are stepping out at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
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Brendan Fraser’s return to Hollywood at the 79th Venice Film Festival was met with many tears.
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