Deadline’s Learn the Screenplay collection spotlighting the 12 months’s most talked-about scripts continues with the Todd Haynes-directed Might December starring Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman and Charles Melton. It made a splash at Cannes this 12 months when the darkly comedic and complicated function, loosely primarily based on the story of Mary Kay Letourneau, was picked up by Netflix in a splashy $11 million rights deal.
“It’s simply made all of us really feel emboldened,” Haynes informed Deadline on the time.
Written by Samy Burch (its her first produced script), the movie follows the character of a scandalous romance between a married lady and a 13-year-old that was a tabloid staple when it occurred 20 years in the past. As within the high-profile romance between trainer Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, Moore’s character served time for seducing an underaged teen, however finally married the child and so they moved away to boost a household and reside quietly. The movie’s set off is the interplay between the couple (Charles Melton performs the husband) and an actress (Natalie Portman) who travels to their Maine house to review the lifetime of the lady she’s going to play in a movie.
Sparks fly among the many three as unresolved points resurface in a romantic drama that reunites Haynes with Moore after they made 2002’s Oscar-nominated Far From Heaven collectively; Haynes received his personal nom for that movie’s unique screenplay.
After its Cannes debut, Haynes carried the Might December momentum by the autumn pageant circuit with stops in New York and London. As awards season hits, the movie seems to be a severe early contender with an Excellent Supporting Efficiency win for Charles Melton on the Gotham Awards, a Greatest Screenplay nod for Burch from the New York Movie Critics Circle, and 5 Spirit Awards nominations together with Greatest Characteristic.
Might December hit theaters with a small run final month and debuted on Netflix on December 1.
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