In Cyrano, the 124-year-old drama gets reinvented as a musical which doesn’t fit as well on film as hoped.
Game of Thrones favorite Peter Dinklage and The Magnificent Seven actress Haley Bennett are set to star in Cyrano, a musical based on Cyrano de Bergerac that Joe Wright will direct for MGM. The duo previously played Cyrano and Roxane in a stage version of the classic tale that was performed off-Broadway last year. Erica Schmidt, the veteran writer-director and stage actress who is also married to Dinklage, wrote the script, which is based on Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. She also wrote the libretto, while The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner wrote the music, …
Netflix has released the first trailer for the upcoming original film The Half of It, and this looks like a teen love story that you won’t want to miss. The story follows a bookish high school student named Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) who makes money on the side ghostwriting papers for her fellow students so she can help her single father pay the bills. But when a jock (Daniel Diemer) hires her to write letters to a girl he likes named Aster (Alexxis Lemire), Ellie finds she’s now also kind of falling for Aster as well. The story …