Dede Gardner And Jeremy Kleiner On Taking A Risk With ‘Nickel Boys’, Creating An Artistic & Political Identity At Plan B & Brad Pitt’s “Mighty” Racing Movie ‘F1’
deadline.comIn Nickel Boys, filmmaker and artist RaMell Ross has created one of the most surprising awards season movies for some years.
His radical approach to form and content is unlike anything usually campaigned for and championed in the mainstream. However, the film is precisely the type of work we’ve come to expect from Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner’s Plan B Entertainment.
The company, co-run by Brad Pitt, has been here before. There was Terrence Malik’s Palme d’Or-winning Tree of Life, which Ross has cited as an inspiration, Steve McQueen’s sprawling American epic 12 Years A Slave, and the quieter but no less impactful Moonlight from Barry Jenkins.
The last two made industry-shifting gains when they clinched the Best Picture Oscar, and Nickel Boys has the chance to do the same in the Dolby on March 3 with a nom in the top category alongside Best Adapted Screenplay.
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