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Sony Pictures Classics has dated Richard Linklater‘s Blue Moon about Rodgers & Harts tunesmith Lorenz Hart for Oct. 17, with an expansion on Oct. 24.
The news comes in a week when Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is making its world premiere at Cannes.
The movie stars Ethan Hawke as Hart, as well as Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott and depicts the final days of the legendary musical scribe. The movie is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.
The project, which made its world premiere at Berlin, reps Academy Award nominee Hawke’s ninth collaboration with Linklater. The Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at Berlin went to Scott.
Linklater produced Blue Moon alongside Mike Blizzard (Hit Man) and John Sloss (Boyhood). The film is a Detour/Renovo production in association with Wild Atlantic Pictures, Under The Influence and Cinetic Media. Additional EPs include Wild Atlantic’s Macdara Kelleher, Donna Eperon and John Keville, Renovo Media Group’s David Kingland, Lisa Crnic and Aaron Wiederspahn and Cinetic’s Steven Farneth.
Additional notable film creatives include director of photography Shane F. Kelly (Hit Man, Boyhood), production designer Susie Cullen (Abigail), Oscar-nominated editor Sandra Adair (Boyhood) and three-time Academy Award nominee, costume designer Consolata Boyle (The Queen).