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A look at the films coming to Sundance this year

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With Oscar nominations out and the awards season drawing to a close, the moviemaking industry will descend on Park City, Utah, on January 23 for the Sundance Film Festival. Although the event is dominated by independent film rather than by studio heavyweights or middle-of-the-road awards contenders, it usually manages to set the tone for the year. Beyond producing surprise box-office hits, such as Get Out, The Big Sick, and Manchester by the Sea, Sundance also offers a preview of the strategies that newer distributors such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and A24 are favoring as they seek out their own ways around mainstream competition.
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Dee Rees, who debuted 2011's Pariah and 2017's Oscar-nominated Mudbound at Sundance, is unveiling her new feature, The Last Thing He Wanted, based on Joan Didion's 1996 novel of the same title. It follows a journalist (played by Anne Hathaway) who becomes embroiled in the world of arms dealing while trying to help her dying father (Willem Dafoe). The film was produced by Netflix, which also distributed Mudbound; Rees has praised the company as a necessary change agent for the industry.
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Josephine Decker (Madeline's Madeline), whose Shirley is an unconventional biopic of the horror writer Shirley Jackson, with Elisabeth Moss as the title character and Michael Stuhlbarg as her husband Stanley. In the film, the couple's young houseguests become inspiration for Jackson's next story. Decker loves to explore the liminal area between art and reality, which makes this premise all the more exciting.
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Plenty of offerings by less well-known filmmakers are already drawing attention as well. One of the most hyped titles is A24's Zola, an adaptation of an extremely viral Twitter thread about a wild trip to Tampa taken by two exotic dancers (Riley Keough and Taylour Paige). Janicza Bravo (Lemon) wrote and directed, with the acclaimed playwright Jeremy O. Harris co-scripting; if this film breaks out as anticipated, no tweet will be safe from Hollywood development agencies.
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Buzz is swirling around Lee Isaac Chung's Minari, also from A24, which stars Steven Yeun as the patriarch of a Korean family that moves to Arkansas in the 1980s to start a farm.
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Figured this was worth sharing. Full article lists a lot more.

I genuinely forgot about the bolded was being adapted.
 
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Shirley definitely seems like the heavy hitter here, Decker + Moss + Stuhlbarg is an absolutely killer trio.

Looking forward to the new Miranda July (Kajillionaire) and Dick Johnson is Dead as well
 
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