After a successful run at film festivals, including winning Short of the Week at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, 1985 is now preparing to become a movie. It’s a good time then to take a look back at the original nine-minute film.
In the short, ‘A dying man (Robert Sella) prepares to move in with his estranged mother. He makes an appointment with a beauty consultant (Lindsay Pulsipher) to hide his symptoms.’
The feature film is already casting, with Cory Michael Smith, best known as Edward Nygma/The Riddler in TV’s Gotham, set to star. The plot with also slightly shifts, with (via NewNowNext) ‘Adrian (Smith) visiting his estranged family in Texas to tell them that he has AIDS. Michael Chiklis and Virginia Madsen play Smith’s conservative parents, with Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp co-starring as his pre-teen brother and Jamie Chung (Big Hero 6) playing a former flame.’
Take a look at Yen Tan’s original short below.
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