{"id":31023,"date":"2025-07-29T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31023\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:33:16","slug":"official-trailer-richard-linklaters-blue-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31023\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Trailer: Richard Linklater&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/official-trailer-richard-linklaters-blue-moon.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sony Pictures Classics\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/official-trailer-richard-linklaters-blue-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"official-trailer-richard-linklaters-blue-moon\"\/><\/a>Sony Pictures Classics<\/p>\n<p>Sony Pictures Classics has premiered the first trailer for filmmaker Richard Linklater\u2019s new feature \u201cBlue Moon\u201d starring Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Delaney, Patrick Kennedy, Jonah Lees and Cillian Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>The story ties to American songwriting duo Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart who created 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs \u2013 Rodgers doing the melodies, Hart the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>The pair collaborated between 1919 and the early 1940s with notable works including the musical \u201cA Connecticut Yankee\u201d and songs like \u201cMy Funny Valentine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hart\u2019s increasing struggles with alcoholism, being semi-closeted, and mental health issues made it challenging for him to work consistently, leading Rodgers to begin a new collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II.<\/p>\n<p>That first work, \u201cOklahoma!,\u201d set a new standard for musical theater. Rodgers and Hammerstein went on to become one of the most successful duos in musical theater history with legendary works like \u201cSouth Pacific,\u201d \u201cCarousel,\u201d \u201cThe King and I\u201d and \u201cThe Sound of Music\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows Hart as he attempts to save face while celebrating his former partner Rodgers\u2019 great success on the Broadway opening night of \u201cOklahoma!\u201d in March 1943. Hart ultimately died a few months later.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the film takes place at the bar of New York Theater District institution Sardi\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The project boasts a script by Robert Kaplow (\u201cMe and Orson Welles\u201d). Linklater, Mike Blizzard and John Sloss produce.  \u201cBlue Moon\u201d opens in cinemas on October 17th.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures Classics Sony Pictures Classics has premiered the first trailer for filmmaker Richard Linklater\u2019s new feature \u201cBlue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-31023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}