Richard Linklater Developing Film ‘Blue Moon’ On Famed American Songwriters Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Their Parting Of Ways
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: As his acclaimed comedic thriller Hit Man approaches its June 7 release on Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater may have identified his next project, as sources tell Deadline that he’s in development on a film called Blue Moon.
Taking its name from the 1934 ballad written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, the film watches as Hart attempts to save face while celebrating his former partner Rodgers’ great success on the night of his musical Oklahoma!‘s Broadway opening.
While it’s believed that this will end up being Linklater’s next film, that’s not entirely clear at present. We’re told that Robert Kaplow — co-writer of Linklater’s 2008 film Me and Orson Welles — penned the script for Blue Moon and that Linklater will produce the project alongside his manager John Sloss.
A prolific American songwriting duo known for their contributions to musical theater, Rodgers and Hart collaborated between 1919 and the early 1940s, with Rodgers serving as composer and Hart as lyricist.
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