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'Brokeback Mountain' Duo, Reunited After 15 Years, Say New Film 'Good Joe Bell' Could "Strike a Nerve"

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It has been 15 years since Oscar-winning writing duo Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, of Brokeback Mountain fame, have seen one of their screenplays made into a movie.

That stat changes Sept. 14 when Good Joe Bell — starring Mark Wahlberg and based on the harrowing true story of a father coming to terms with the suicide of his young gay son — makes its world premiere at TIFF in advance of awards season.

As with Brokeback, it was Ossana who convinced McMurtry to take on the project when director Cary Joji Fukunaga cold-called them in 2014 asking if they would be interested in writing the screenplay.

The film follows Joe Bell as he embarks on a cross-country walk in order to raise awareness about the death of his son in 2013.

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