The film was especially personal because in 2014, not long before making the movie, Ms. Andree, a mechanic nearly two decades younger than her partner. Page came onto the project early, as a producer and to play Ms. Hester and her supporters had to try to convince the officials, called freeholders, to change their position. Because New Jersey law left decisions about pensions up to the county, Ms. The feature version of вЂњFreeheldвЂќ began with the 2007 documentary by Cynthia Wade, who filmed Ms. The films will play to audiences more conscious of those issues because of the Supreme Court ruling and Caitlyn JennerвЂ™s visibility. вЂњAbout Ray,вЂќ with Elle Fanning as a transgender teenager, will open next year. The coming months will bring: вЂњThe Danish Girl,вЂќ with Eddie Redmayne as a transgender character вЂњStonewall,вЂќ about the beginning of the gay-rights movement, and вЂњCarol,вЂќ with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as a 1950s lesbian couple. It is one in a cluster of movies with gay or transgender themes. 2) arrives in a social landscape altered by the Supreme Court decision in favor of marriage equality, a situation the filmmakers could not have foreseen. In a coincidence of timing, вЂњFreeheldвЂќ (opening Oct. MooreвЂ™s character fights for equality even while she is dying. Hester had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer creates a double-wallop on screen, as Ms. вЂњItвЂ™s the ultimate moment when the personal becomes political,вЂќ Ms. In 2005, when same-sex marriage was still on the horizon, she fought Ocean County officials for the right to make her legal domestic partner, Stacie Andree (played by Ellen Page), the beneficiary of her pension. Moore plays Laurel Hester, a veteran police detective in New Jersey. Fiction mingles with fact in the drama, based on an Oscar-winning short documentary also called вЂњFreeheld.вЂќ Ms. вЂњItвЂ™s a love story and a civil-rights story,вЂќ Julianne Moore says of her new film, вЂњFreeheld,вЂќ whose dual elements go well beyond that. Rooney Mara has Todd Haynes Cannes film Carol coming soon, and will be seen next year in The Secret Scripture, in Lion, and Blackbird, and she recently wrapped on the Terrence Malick's upcoming, still-untitled film. He's currently in production on Fernando Coimbra's Sandcastle, and is repped by UTA and 42. Nicholas Hoult was last seen in Mad Max: Fury Road, will soon reprise the role of Henry McCoy AKA Beast in X-Men: Apocalypse, and will also be seen in Equals, and as JD Salinger in The Rye. They're both repped by ICM Partners and MGMT Entertainment. The Discovery is the second feature film from McDowell and Lader, following The One I love. Julie Goldstein and Lucas Smith will oversee for Endgame, while Mike Goodridge, Dimitra Tsingou and Eddie Vaisman will do so for Protagonist. The film will be financed jointly by Endgame Entertainment and Protagonist Pictures, and ICM Partners is handling the domestic rights. Stern and Endgame's previous credits include Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects, Rian Johnson's Looper, Lone Scherfig's An Education, and Freeheld. Orlovsky previously produced The Place Beyond The Pines, Blue Valentine, the Wolfpack and Half Nelson. Verisimilitude's Alex Orlovsky will produce, along with James D. Hoult will play the son of the scientist who made the discovery, with Mara playing a woman whose life is tinged by a tragic past, with whom Hoult's character falls in love. Directed by Charlie McDowell from a script he co-wrote with Justin Lader, the film is a love story set one year after the existence of the afterlife is scientifically verified. The writer-director duo behind The One I Love are re-teaming for the science fiction romance The Discovery, with Rooney Mara and Nicholas Hoult set to star.

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