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Richard Linklater Developing Film ‘Blue Moon’ On Famed American Songwriters Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Their Parting Of Ways
Richard Linklater is developing 'Blue Moon,' a film centered on famed songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, sources tell Deadline.
EXCLUSIVE: As his acclaimed comedic thriller Hit Man approaches its June 7 release on Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater may have identified his next project, as sources tell Deadline that he’s in development on a film called Blue Moon. Loosely based on a 2001 true crime article out of the Texas Monthly, the film centers on Gary Johnson (Powell), a professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, who descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman (Arjona) who enlists his services. Currently, he’s in the midst of another long-term project, à la 2014’s Oscar-nominated Boyhood, with Merry We Roll Along, a feature adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical, starring Paul Mescal, Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein, which is shooting intermittently over the course of 20 years.
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