Boyhood (film)

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name = Boyhood


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director = Richard Linklater
producer = Tommy Pallotta
Anne Walker-McBay
writer = Richard Linklater
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starring =Ellar Salmon
Ethan Hawke
Patricia Arquette
Shane Graham
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released = 2013
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country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 1065073

"Boyhood" (or "The 12-Year Movie") is a working title for the upcoming motion picture directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and Ellar Salmon. Filming for the movie began in the summer of 2002 in Houston, Texas and the movie is set to be released 2013. [imdb title|id=1065073|title=Boyhood]

Plot

The movie tells a story of two divorced parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) trying to raise their precocious child (Ellar Salmon). The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.Blackburn, Rachel. (May 16, 2002) PA News "Shooting begins on film that will take 12 years."] [ [http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1546688/11282006/story.jhtml MTV Movies] ]

Cast

* Ethan Hawke as Dad
* Patricia Arquette as Mom
* Ellar Salmon as Mason
* Shane Graham as Stanley
* Cassidy Johnson as Abby
* Cambell Westmore and as Kenny
* Breanna Mikaki as a child in a classroom
* Kiera Collins as a child in a classroom
* Daniel Feldman as a child in a classroom
* Marc Feldman as a teacher's aide in a classroom

Production

In May 2002, Academy Award-nominated American film director and screenwriter Richard Linklater announced that he would begin shooting the then unnamed film in his home city of Houston, Texas in the summer of 2002. At that time, Linklater planned to assemble the cast and crew a few weeks out of every year to shoot the story over a 12-year period, reasoning that, "I've long wanted to tell the story of a parent-child relationship that follows a boy from the first through the 12th grade and ends with him going off to college. But the dilemma is that kids change so much that it is impossible to cover that much ground. And I am totally ready to adapt the story to whatever he is going through. Even if he's got acne, we'll go with that." Linklater hired the then 7-year-old Ellar Salmon to play the boy as the centerpiece of the story. Rea, Steven. (May 19, 2002) Philadelphia Inquirer " [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Linklater+has+hired+7-year-old+Eller+Salmon+to+play+the+kid%2C+and+will+shoot+new+scenes+every+year+through+2014.+%28Mark+your+calendars+now+for+the+2015+release%21%29&btnG=Search+Archives&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8 De Niro reassures a studio about a boy.] " Section: Features Arts & Entertainment; Page H9.] [ [http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1546688/11282006/story.jhtml MTV Movies interview] ]

Ellar Salmon will not be replaced by another actor throughout in the film's 12-year period.

ee also

* "Up series" - a series of documentary films that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old.

References

External links

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* [http://www.detourfilm.com/ Detour Films]