Richard Linklater, who famously spent 12 years making Boyhood, is in the middle of directing a movie with a 20-year production. Here's some info on Merrily We Roll Along and when we'll probably get to see it.

Back in 2018, word leaked that Richard Linklater, celebrated Texas filmmaker behind Before Midnight, Boyhood, and Dazed and Confused, would be tackling a movie based around the moon landing. Last year he told me that while it didn’t get off the “launch pad,” he was going to “take another run at it.” And apparently, that run was successful, because today Netflix announced that Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Adventure would be coming to the streaming platform. [caption id="attachment_911947" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] Described as combining live-action with hand-drawn and CGI animation, the …

Even if Richard Linklater's name doesn't sound as familiar as other directors, you will definitely have seen at least one of his top ten movies.

Filmmaker Richard Linklater, whose ambitious 2014 film Boyhood spanned the course of 12 years and was nominated for six Oscars, is directing a new multi-year movie that will star Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein, multiple sources tell Collider. Linklater's longtime collaborator Ginger Sledge is producing the ambitious project, and sources say that Jason Blum and his Blumhouse banner are also involved. The film is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical Merrily We Roll Along, which itself was based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The play takes …

Boyhood director Richard Linklater reveals his latest film epic - a 20-year production that includes actors Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt.

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Based on the on the novel by Maria Semple, the film Where'd You Go Bernadette finds Cate Blanchett ready to flee to Antarctica to start her life's second act in director Richard Linklater's latest. The film, stocked with an outstanding cast, feels like it has a little bit of Eat, Pray, Love to it as Blanchett's role as a wife and mother seems to have left her drained and exhausted creatively, and the only answer is to depart across the world to fix it. There's definitely a hefty dose of wish-fulfillment here as well …