It's time to compare notes with the real Zola after that wild finale.
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The real-life Zola took to Twitter once again to settle long-held assumptions about the viral story.
I love when Jake Gyllenhaal goes unhinged. I love the intensity of Janicza Bravo's directorial style. And I love stories about unreliable central figures crafting obsessive webs of lies. Lucky me, then, that Bravo is writing and directing a TV show for Gyllenhaal to star in that features all of this and more! Via Deadline, the duo are teaming up on the sure-to-be-provocative A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions. Based on a New Yorker article from Ian Parker, the series will detail the bonkers real life story of suspense novelist Dan Mallory, who wrote the …
A24 has released the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated upcoming film Zola, which premiered in the Before Times at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to significant buzz and largely positive reviews. The film is based on a series of tweets by a woman named A’Ziah King, which began with: “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” This is exactly how the film begins, and what follows is an uproarious, surprising, thrilling and sharply funny journey chronicling an insane 48-hour …
Zola is why I love movies. I love it when movies take me to places I would never go. This is what we expect from great storytelling, but when telling stories set in the real world, especially stories focused on people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, there’s a concern about using other people’s misery for our entertainment. Director and co-writer Janicza Bravo masterfully threads the needle by taking us on a wild journey through the underbelly of Tampa while never losing empathy for her imperiled characters. The film’s biggest failing that it may take …