Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaOwen Teague had spent eight months in quarantine with his parents, sitting out the pandemic in Florida when the script arrived for “Montana Story.” The searing family drama was one of Teague’s first chances to anchor a film, and he leapt at the opportunity.
Weeks later, Teague, who turned heads in adaptations of Stephen King’s “It” and “The Stand,” was in Bozeman, Mont., preparing to shoot the story of two estranged siblings who reconnect at their father’s death bed.“The story was partially removed from what was happening in the world, but it felt somehow related,” Teague tells Variety on the eve of the film’s premiere last week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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