Deadline’s Learn the Screenplay collection spotlighting the 12 months’s most talked-about scripts continues with Flora and Son, John Carney‘s newest indie ode to music that stars Eve Hewson in a breakout position.
Written and directed by Carney, whose credit embody the song-centered As soon as, Start Once more and Sing Avenue, the movie premiered at this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Competition the place Apple Unique Movies jumped on it, scoring one of many fest’s splashiest acquisitions after an all-night bidding battle. It was Apple’s largest deal in Park Metropolis since touchdown eventual Finest Image Oscar winner CODA in 2021.
Flora and Son hit theaters in late September earlier than launching on Apple TV+.
Hewson, the daughter of U2 frontman Bono, stars as a single mother in Dublin who appears to make use of a shared love of music to interrupt via together with her troubled teen son Max (Orén Kinlan), who’s heading down the unsuitable aspect of the tracks. Joseph Gordon-Levitt performs a washed-up on-line guitar instructor with a troubled previous of his personal who provides her the instruments to do it. Jack Reynor additionally stars.
Hewson and Gordon-Levitt stated throughout a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Movie: Los Angeles that the pair wrote one of many script’s key songs, “Meet Me within the Center,” on the fly — and on the primary day they met on set. It grew to become a cornerstone scene when the 2 carried out the duet on a rooftop.
Learn the script right here:
