{"id":117,"date":"2014-12-16T23:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=117"},"modified":"2014-12-16T23:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:16:50","slug":"sundance-adds-robert-redford-dramedy-jonah-hill-and-james-francos-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Sundance Adds Robert Redford Dramedy, Jonah Hill and James Franco\u2019s \u2018True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sundance Institute has added a pair of world premieres \u2014 Robert Redford\u2019s \u201cA Walk in the Woods,\u201d and Jonah Hill and James Franco\u2019s \u201cTrue Story\u201d \u2014 to the lineup of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Walk in the Woods\u201d stars Sundance founder Redford as a travel writer who sets out to hike the Appalachian Trail with a long-estranged friend, portrayed by Nick Nolte.  Ken Kwapis directs the comedy-drama from a script by Rick Kerb and Bill Holderman. Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman and Kristen Schaal also star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue Story,\u201d directed by Rupert Goold from a script he co-wrote with David Kajganich, centers on disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel (Hill) meeting accused killer Christian Longo (Franco) \u2014 who has taken on Finkel\u2019s identity;  his investigation morphs into a game of cat and mouse.<\/p>\n<p>The Sundance Kids section added the U.S. premiere of \u201cThe Games Maker\u201d from Juan Pablo Buscarini and starring David Mazouz, Joseph Fiennes, Ed Asner, Megan Charpentier, Tom Cavanagh and Valentina Lodovini.<\/p>\n<p>The Kids section also added \u201cOperation Arctic\u201d from Grethe B\u00f8e-Waal\u201d in a modern-day Robinson Crusoe adventure set in the Arctic; and \u201cShaun the Sheep,\u201d from Richard Starzak and Mark Burton.<\/p>\n<p>The special events section added the world premiere of Romanian movie \u201cPioneers Palace B\u201992\u201d from Bobby Paunescu, set in the wild days of post-Ceausescu Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>The new frontiers section added three live-action virtual reality experiences by artists F\u00e9lix Lajeunesse and Paul Rapha\u00ebl: Herders\u201d and \u201cWild \u2014 the Experience\u201d by Lajeunesse and Rapha\u00ebl; and \u201cStrangers\u201d by Patrick Watson.<\/p>\n<p>The Sundance Collection will present a digital restoration of  \u201cParis Is Burning\u201d by Jennie Livingston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/news\/sundance-adds-robert-redford-drama-jonah-hill-and-james-francos-true-story-1201379800\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundance Institute has added a pair of world premieres \u2014 Robert Redford\u2019s \u201cA Walk in the Woods,\u201d and Jonah Hill and James Franco\u2019s \u201cTrue Story\u201d \u2014 to the lineup of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. \u201cA Walk in the Woods\u201d stars Sundance founder Redford as a travel writer who sets out to hike the Appalachian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundance","category-true-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}