10 years ago Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana won an Oscar for their script for Brokeback Mountain. Interestingly despite that success it’s the last feature writing credit for either of them (they’ve been attached to numerous projects but nothing that’s made it to the screen).
However now they’re reuniting and going back into the arena of gay-themed drama, according to Indiewire, with True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga set to direct.
The film doesn’t have a title yet, but it is ‘Based on the true story of Joe and his son Jadin Bell, a 15-year-old Oregon teen who killed himself in 2013 after suffering vicious bullying for being gay, the drama will be penned by the Oscar-winning “Brokeback Mountain” team of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. After Jadin committed suicide, his father set out across America to promote awareness and to rally against prejudice and bullying.’
It certainly sounds like a provocative and potentially moving story and hopefully Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana can do it justice.
The film is the first that distributor A24 is developing itself, although there’s no news on when it might arrive in cinemas.
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