Edmund Donovan Joins Willem Dafoe & Greta Lee In Kent Jones’ ‘Late Fame’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Edmund Donovan, an up-and-comer known for roles in Alex Garland’s Civil War and Sundance genre-bender Your Monster, has landed a key role opposite Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee in Late Fame, the new film from director Kent Jones (Diane), which is entering production this week.
Written by May December‘s Samy Burch, Late Fame is a portrait of Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), a postal worker who wrote and published poetry such a long time ago that he’s forgotten he ever was a poet.
When a group of young writers and students rediscovers one of his books and reclaims him as one of their own, he finds, against his better judgment, that he likes it: the attention and the hero worship draw him out of his solitary routines and renew his spirit.
How quickly he starts to see himself as a true artist… how coarse and vulgar his old friends begin to look. The young writers speak loftily of their passionate ambitions for themselves, for their art form, for the future!
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