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“What Just Happened?” Poster
The upcoming Barry Levinson (“Good Morning, Vietnam,” “Rainman” and “Bugsy“) -directed comedy, entitled “What Just Happened?” has been screened at the Cannes Film Festival and today we have newly released poster.
Art Linson, the veteran Hollywood producer, wrote a screenplay that was inspired by his memoir. In the fictional film, Robert De Niro plays a desperate movie producer trying to preserve some dignity as his soul is slowly destroyed by the machinations of Hollywood and the breakup of his second marriage.
‘What Just Happened?’ to close Cannes
“What Just Happened?” Barry Levinson‘s tale of an embattled Hollywood producer, has been chosen to close this year’s Festival de Cannes.
The movie, written by Art Linson and based on his memoir about his experiences as a producer, stars Robert De Niro as Ben, whose professional and personal life comes undone during one turbulent week.
In a life-imitating-art turn, the film’s climactic scene takes place at the Festival de Cannes, with the fictional movie-within-a-movie that Ben has produced opening the festival.
The official announcement is expected sometime next week.
“Happened” also stars Catherine Keener as a tough-as-nails studio chief and features a number of stars, including Sean Penn and Bruce Willis, playing themselves in self-parodying roles.
Robert Redford ‘to star in Bryson movie’
Actor Robert Redford could produce and star in a film based on a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A Walk in the Woods was written by Bryson in 1998, about a journey along the Appalachian Trail.
The movie has been under consideration for some time. At one stage there were rumours of a reunion with Paul Newman.
The Hollywood Reporter says Barry Levinson is discussing the possibility of directing the film.
Bryson’s book is an account of his hike along the trail – much of it wilderness – which stretches from Georgia to Maine in the eastern US.
The movie would be dependent on Redford giving it script approval. But the writers’ strike has delayed the production of a draft.
Redford is also reported to be considering moving ahead with another film about baseball manager Branch Rickey who helped break down the racial divide in the sport.
