(Left) Adam Driver stars in director Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari.’ (Center) Anne Hathaway for Apple TV+’s ‘WeCrashed.’ (Right) ‘Eden’ director Ron Howard.
Preview:
- Anne Hathaway and Adam Driver are starring in ‘Alone at Dawn’.
- Ron Howard is in the director’s chair.
- It’s based on a true story.
Director Ron Howard is no stranger to based-on-truth moviemaking –– the likes of ‘Apollo 13’ and ‘Thirteen Lives’ speak to that. He’s reuniting with Amazon MGM Studios (which produced the latter) for a new film that tackles an incredible true story called ‘Alone at Dawn’.
And Deadline brings word that for the new movie about heroism and struggle, he’s recruited quite the leading duo, as Anne Hathaway and Adam Driver are both aboard to star.
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What’s the story of ‘Alone at Dawn’?
Adam Driver in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’. Photo: Lucasfilm.
The new movie is based on the book of the same name by Dan Schilling and Lori Longfritz and is inspired by an incredible true story.
Years after Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman fought to the death to save his fellow soldiers, an intelligence officer strives to prove his valor — leading an investigation that would ultimately secure him the Medal of Honor. Schilling is a military consultant on the movie and, like Chapman, was also a Combat Control Technician. Longfritz, full name Lori Chapman Longfritz, is Chapman’s sister.
Thruline Entertainment brought the manuscript of the book to The Hideaway Entertainment who optioned it in a heated bidding war before it became a New York Times bestseller.
Hideaway hired Michael Russell Gunn (‘Designated Survivor’) to write the script, which has also seen work by Erin Cressida Wilson (‘The Girl on the Train’) and Amy Herzog (‘Scenes from a Marriage’). And that, in turn caught Howard’s attention when the screenplay arrived at Imagine Entertainment.
Driver, meanwhile, jumped aboard as a former Marine who has long wanted to appear in a military-focused project with the right message.
He and Howard then approach Hathaway, who agreed to play the intelligence officer.
Where else can we see Anne Hathaway and Adam Driver?
Anne Hathaway in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Most recently seen in ‘Mother’s Instinct’ and ‘The Idea of You’, Hathaway is currently shooting ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ and has also completed filming on Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’.
Driver will next be seen in Jim Jarmusch’s new film ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’, and James Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’.
When will ‘Alone at Dawn’ be on screens?
With the project still at an early stage, we don’t yet know when it might hit screens, and in true Amazon fashion, it could land in theaters or debut on Prime Video.
Ron Howard on the set of ‘Eden’. Photo: Jasin Boland.
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