traceyk65 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Saw this today. I think it would be really really good or completely terrible. The Blacklist was an interesting time in American/Hollywood history and I think its a story that should be told. I think the blacklisting of gays in Washington should be highlighted too, but it's a start. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203606/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird66 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 tracey, thanks for posting this. I haven't been to a theater in years but I would like to see this. Since I don't watch normal tv anymore, I had no idea they were making a movie about Dalton Trumbo. I agree with you, it is a story that needs told. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 SYNOPSIS The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. CAST Bryan Cranston Elle Fanning Diane Lane John Goodman Helen Mirren Michael StuhlbargLouis C.K --great potential story & cast..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 SYNOPSIS The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. CAST Bryan Cranston Elle Fanning Diane Lane John Goodman Helen Mirren Michael StuhlbargLouis C.K --great potential story & cast..... I know. It sounds really good. I just hope it's not one of those things that plays in "select theatres" because there's never one near me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonCole Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Sounds rivetting and thanks to tracey for bringing this attention to it. Dalton Trumbo's story is one which should be told and hopefully with all warts intact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Thanks -- this sounds really interesting. I hope they give appropriate credit to Otto Preminger and Kirk Douglas, who helped bring Dalton Trumbo out of the shadows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapphiere Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 I know. It sounds really good. I just hope it's not one of those things that plays in "select theatres" because there's never one near me! The same thing happens to me, and it drives me crazy.Who wants to wait a year a year to see a film that could be nominated or award winning. My daughter-in-law drove sixty five miles in July in order for us to see DOUBLE INDEMITY on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 OK, Now I really want to see this movie! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wouldbestar Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 OK, Now I really want to see this movie! YOU want to see this movie? I'm already lined up! According to the trailer Kirk Douglas gets his propers for going to bat for Trumbo so perhaps Otto Perminger will as well. Back when talk shows really were as advertised Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas-no not Kirk's son-had several veterans of the Blacklist as guests on their shows. Some stated that even child actors were put on the list if somebody had a gripe against a family member. Others had had only nodding acquaintances with listed performers or been briefly associated with Communist movements many years before. This story needs to be told, warts and all. The exact opposite could just as easily happen in a reverse political climate; some people believe it already has. It's our history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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