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NEW SUIT MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER AT MIDDAY UGC HAYMARKET SCREEN 2
Country USA Running Time 92 mins Format 35mm Dir FranĦois Velle Prods Laurent M Zilber, Christina N Zilber S'play Craig Sherman DoP M David Mullen Cast Jordan Bridges, Marisa Coughlan, Heather Donahue, Dan Hedeya Print Source Trillion Entertainment E sd@trillionentertainmetn.com New Suit skewers Hollywood absurdity. The lying, stealing and deception - Hollywood staples - are all here in this breezy, confident and funny satire. Based loosely on the myth of the Emperor's New Clothes, New Suit is a screenplay that just does not exist. Screenwriter Kevin Taylor, aptly played by Jordan Bridges (son of Beau), arrives in Hollywood to pursue his dream of becoming a success. He hooks up with Marianne Roxbury (played by Marisa Coughlan, every bit as nasty as she was in Pumpkin) who is a very junior agent. Lesson number one in Hollywood becomes: always vastly overstate your real importance. Before Taylor can help himself, he has created a huge bidding auction for his non-existent script. Everyone that matters in Hollywood, it seems, has either read the script, or had a meeting with the writer. Enter Dan Hedaya's crass producer character, Hansau, who attempts to outbid all others in a hilarious series of mishaps. New Suit is a dizzying display of the art of cutthroat dealmaking. As the action escalates, Velle and screenwriter Craig Sherman keep everything on the light side of serious, but still manages to score more points than many so-called serious examinations of Hollywood. EG FranĦois Velle, 40, left France in 1998 for LA. In France he directed for TV, and earned 7 D'Or awards (the French Emmys). His debut feature, Commes des Rois (Kings for a Day) earned critical acclaim, and Dreamworks have purchased the remake rights, which Velle will co-produce. |
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