Joe Wright’s “Cyrano”, a musical film adaptation of the popular French story, is headed to the Telluride Film Festival. Peter Dinklage stars in the title role he played onstage, and Haley Bennett reprises the role of Roxanne that she played alongside him at the Terris Theatre in 2018. Kelvin Harrison Jr, Bashir Salahuddin and Ben Mendelsohn co-star.
Wright has had his fair share of ups (“Atonement,” (“Pride & Prejudice”) and downs (“Pan,” “The Woman in the Window”). The fact that the film isn’t going to any of the other big fall festivals no doubt gives me pause for concern, but it’s quite the enticing proposition having Dinklage play the title role here
The very latest dispatch from Michael Patterson, who has become quite the expert at sussing out what’s going to T-Ride over the years, shows that these are potentially the movies we’ll be sifting through. He’s right about most of these.
Here are his 20 Best Bets:
1) The Power of the Dog/Campion
2) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe
3) The Card Counter/Schrader
4) Spencer/Larrain
5) A Hero/Farhadi
6) C'mon, C'mon/Mills
7) The Rescue/Chin and Vasarhely
8) The Velvet Underground/Haynes
9) Julia/Cohen and West
10) Becoming Cousteau/Garbus
11) Cyrano/Wright
12) Petite Maman/Sciamma
13) Something from Mark Cousins***
14) Hallelujah-Leonard Cohen Doc/Geller and Goldfine
15) Encounter/Pearce
16) The Hand of God/Sorrentino
17) Vortex/Noe
18) The First 54 Years/Mograbi
19) The Lost Daughter/Gyllenhaal
20) Three Minutes-A Lengenthing/Stigter
His “possibilities” are almost all going to T-Ride as well:
The French Dispatch/Anderson
Red Rocket/Baker
Last Exit: Space/Herzog
Flee/Rasmussen
King Richard/Green
Prayers for the Stolen/Huezo
Unclenching the Fists/Kovalenko
A Chiara/Carpagnino
Muhammad Ali/Burns
His reasoning is simple: Cregger sees himself first and foremost as a writer, and he has little interest in shaping stories around the predetermined “data points” that come with established IP.