Ethan and Maya Hawke Film ‘Wildcat’ Sells to Oscilloscope
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Ethan and Maya Hawke‘s Flannery O’Connor biopic “Wildcat” has found a distributor. Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to the film and plans to release it theatrically in the spring.
Ethan Hawke directed “Wildcat,” which stars his daughter Maya as the Southern gothic writer of works like “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” It had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and also played at Toronto Film Festival. “I can’t help but feel a strange thrill imagining the pleasure Ms.
O’Connor would have at knowing that a company dedicated to championing art — Oscilloscope — is releasing a film inspired by her life and work,” Ethan Hawke said in a statement. “We have found the perfect partners and can’t wait to release this film.” Set in 1950, “Wildcat” takes a kaleidoscopic look at the life and work of a young Flannery O’Connor as she battles lupus and struggles to publish her first novel.
In the movie, O’Connor, a deeply religious Catholic, asks herself questions like, “Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness?
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