When I sat down to watch the controversy rife comedy The Interview, it ended up reminding me of just one thing: how much I miss dramatic actor and Oscar nominee James Franco. I’ve been a big fan of his switch to comedy, and it’s not as if he’s stopped doing dramatic roles over the years, but I felt like I hadn’t seen him take a really meaty role, the kind he could slice off slowly with a tiny blade since 127 Hours. Now he’s back, and he’s bringing dramatic actor and Oscar nominee Jonah Hill along with him for True Story. I’m in.
The upcoming film tells the story of Michael Finkel (spoilers from a true story at the link, I guess), a former New York Times journalist who encounters a man named Christian Longo, who has been living under the cover identity of Michael Finkel. It’s not as twisty or trippy as it sounds – nothing like Enemy or The Double, basically – but the film looks like it’s going to be quite an engaging drama/thriller. The presence of Felicity Jones and Gretchen Mol in the female leads doesn’t hurt either, since both of them are incredibly talented actresses and I feel like at least one of them hasn’t had a big role in ages. The True Story trailer features about a million shots of Jonah Hill on the phone, or of the two actors sitting in a room together, staring dramatically at one another. That they’re both really solid dramatic actors means that those two repeated things are actually still pretty compelling. Even in this trailer.
We’ll see if they deliver the goods again, but together, or if the True Story trailer is just one dramatic as all hell piece of trailer editing.
Nas Hoosen
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