Over two years after it premiered to rave evaluations at Sundance in 2023, producer Sofia Coppola and director Andrew Durham’s “Fairyland” is lastly touchdown in theaters, courtesy of Lionsgate and WILLA, and the trailer is right here (watch under). The film is Durham’s debut and is about to hit theaters on October 10.
The logline of “Fairyland” describes it as, “a coming-of-age story set in opposition to the backdrop of San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s,” with the plot chronicling “a father and daughter relationship because it evolves via an period of bohemian decadence to the sober and heartbreaking period of the AIDS disaster.”
The solid consists of Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy, Cody Fern, Maria Bakalova, Bella Murphy, Adam Lambert, Oscar-winner Geena Davis, and newcomer Ness Dougherty. Durham is a veteran movie and tv skilled who has been engaged on distinguished productions for over three many years, relationship again to his early days engaged on as a manufacturing assistant on “Twin Peaks: Hearth Stroll with Me” and “Scream.” His lengthy relationship with Coppola dates again to her first brief in 1998, “Lick the Star,” which he produced. He held senior management roles at MTV Networks and Fox Tv Studios.
“Andrew’s been a pal and a collaborator because the ’90s, we grew up kinda discovering our manner collectively, making little brief movies collectively,” Coppola instructed IndieWire at Sundance in 2023. “He’s at all times somebody that I belief with getting notes for my edits, and I’m a fan of Andrew’s movies that he made as a child. So I at all times wish to champion his work. …Once I learn that ebook, I believed, ‘Oh, this might make a stupendous movie.’ And he got here to thoughts as a result of I believed he knew that world and that story and I believed he might carry one thing stunning and I belief his sensibilities.”
Coppola’s final producing challenge was her personal “Priscilla,” which she directed as properly and was lovingly obtained in 2023 (and was government produced by its topic, Priscilla Presley, tailored from her memoir). She is going to subsequent launch “Marc by Sofia,” at Venice on September 2 — a documentary on designer Marc Jacobs.
Star Emilia Jones can even seem this fall in “The Working Man,” alongside Glen Powell and William H. Macy, due for launch on November 14.
Jones mentioned with IndieWire her preparation for “Fairyland,” which takes nice pains to recreate the environment of San Francisco within the Nineteen Seventies. “I did a number of analysis. I had a scene within the nightclub dancing and Andrew stated to me, ‘Don’t do any trendy dance,’” Jones stated. “There’s truly a great deal of movies on YouTube of actual nightclubs within the ’80s… so I simply watched hours and hours and hours of that… And likewise Maggie [Whitaker], the costume designer, she was so wonderful, and the minute I used to be type of in costume, I felt like I used to be in a completely totally different period. She nailed it.”
“Fairyland” is in theaters all over the place on October 10. Watch the trailer under.
