Writer Kelli McNeil says she was already “deeply insecure about [her] work” when she handed over an early draft of Daruma — a drama about Patrick (Tobias Forrest), a veteran and quadriplegic who discovers he’s the father of a young girl born from a one-night stand years earlier — to her fiancé, director-cinematographer Alexander Yellen.
“She goes off to the other room, and I start reading the script, and by page two, I’m laughing,” says Yellen, who’s worked in various capacities on shows like Z Nation and Euphoria. “She goes, ‘This is a drama.’ I said, ‘No, it’s not. It’s a dark comedy and it’s great.’”
McNeil began writing the script back in 2017, long before it would premiere at 2023’s Dances With Films Fest in L.A. and screen last month as part of Slamdance’s Unstoppable program, where Peter Farrelly signed on as executive producer to help bolster its profile.
“She goes off to the other room, and I start reading the script, and by page two, I’m laughing,” says Yellen, who’s worked in various capacities on shows like Z Nation and Euphoria. “She goes, ‘This is a drama.’ I said, ‘No, it’s not. It’s a dark comedy and it’s great.’”
McNeil began writing the script back in 2017, long before it would premiere at 2023’s Dances With Films Fest in L.A. and screen last month as part of Slamdance’s Unstoppable program, where Peter Farrelly signed on as executive producer to help bolster its profile.
- 2/9/2024
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Daruma’: Abigail Hawk, Tobias Forrest, John W. Lawson & Barry Bostwick Star In Disability-Drama Pic
Abigail Hawk (Blue Bloods), Tobias Forrest (Coffee Wars), John Lawson (Untitled Pet Sematery Prequel) and Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show) are among the cast in feature drama Daruma.
Currently filming in Los Angeles, Daruma follows in the footsteps of Coda and The Peanut Butter Falcon in that it features lead actors with disabilities, but the central plot is not centered around disability.
The film follows Patrick (Forrest) who discovers he has a daughter (newcomer Victoria Scott) and agrees to take her on a cross-country roadtrip with his neighbor Robert (Lawson) to live with her maternal grandparents on the opposite side of the country (Bostwick).
Director/Dp Alexander Yellen (Z-Nation) helms the picture from a script that Kelli McNeil-Yellen penned. Both Yellen’s serve as executive producers alongside Producer Jodi Binstock (Z-Nation) with Abigail Hawk and Jonathan Salemi as associate producers. The project is the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmakers Grant,...
Currently filming in Los Angeles, Daruma follows in the footsteps of Coda and The Peanut Butter Falcon in that it features lead actors with disabilities, but the central plot is not centered around disability.
The film follows Patrick (Forrest) who discovers he has a daughter (newcomer Victoria Scott) and agrees to take her on a cross-country roadtrip with his neighbor Robert (Lawson) to live with her maternal grandparents on the opposite side of the country (Bostwick).
Director/Dp Alexander Yellen (Z-Nation) helms the picture from a script that Kelli McNeil-Yellen penned. Both Yellen’s serve as executive producers alongside Producer Jodi Binstock (Z-Nation) with Abigail Hawk and Jonathan Salemi as associate producers. The project is the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmakers Grant,...
- 2/2/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Chuck Yeager, perhaps the most well-known test pilot of all time who in 1947 became the first person ever to break the sound barrier, died Monday. He was 97.
The news was announced on Yeager’s official Twitter account via a statement from his wife, Victoria, on Monday night.
“It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm Et. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever,” the statement said.
Yeager’s achievements as a pilot were legendary even in his day. He entered the Army as an enlisted man in the summer of 1941 and first worked as a place mechanic. He was ineligible to become a pilot as he hadn’t gone to college, the military relaxed recruitment requirements after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Yeager was accepted for training.
The news was announced on Yeager’s official Twitter account via a statement from his wife, Victoria, on Monday night.
“It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm Et. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever,” the statement said.
Yeager’s achievements as a pilot were legendary even in his day. He entered the Army as an enlisted man in the summer of 1941 and first worked as a place mechanic. He was ineligible to become a pilot as he hadn’t gone to college, the military relaxed recruitment requirements after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Yeager was accepted for training.
- 12/8/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
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