Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne to Star in Richard Linklater’s New Film
Richard Linklater has found his next project and set the all-star ensemble to lead the film.
Linklater is attached to direct and write an adaptation of the novel “Last Flag Flying” with Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne and in talks to star. The movie is a sequel of sorts to the 1970 film “The Last Detail” starring Jack Nicholson.
Amazon is circling the project as a financier and distributor.
Inspired by the 1970s Darryl Ponicsan novel that was later turned into a pic starring Nicholson, this 2005 novel is now set during the Iraq War, with the classic characters of Billy Bad-Ass, Mule, and the hapless Meadows making their returns. The boy Billy and Mule escorted to prison has come back into their lives, now a grieving man of 52, with a gut-wrenching request they cannot deny. What follows is a retracing of their steps from 34 years before, a journey from Norfolk, Virginia, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on a mission as heart-breaking – and as exhilarating – as the first.
Linklater has been trying to get the film off the ground for sometime going back to when it was originally published in 2015.
Carell was most recently seen in “The Big Short.” He is repped by WME.
Cranston is also coming off his Oscar nominated perf in “Trumbo” and was also recently nominated for an Emmy in “All the Way” where he played President Lyndon B. Johnson. He is repped by UTA.
