Hollywood actor Michael Shannon is ready to make his directorial debut with Eric Larue.
Eric Larue movie is based on the Brett Neveu play that debuted in 2002 at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago, where Shannon is a founding member. He will be directing by adapting Neveu’s script.
Reportedly the film had been scheduled to shoot in Arkansas. But since the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe v Wade triggered that state’s Act 180 of 2019, which bans nearly all forms of abortions, such as cases of rape and incest, the Hollywood filmmakers have withdrawn from shooting Arkansas and now will be shooting in and around Wilmington, NC.
For Neveu, the origin of Eric Larue as a play was in response to the mass shooting in 1999 at Columbine High School in Colorado. The play premiered at the Red Orchid n 2002.
Shannon said, Eric Larue has so much to say about our country, about the way we try (sometimes quite ineptly) to deal with the trauma of living here, which is so insidious because it does not present itself overtly in concrete terms most of the time.
I find it interesting, he added, to align with artists possessing the most vivid imaginations, the most stringent yet empathetic senses of morality, and the most passionate and rigorous disciplines to create worlds and stories that contribute to our experience and understanding of what it is to be a human being in this day and age and, particularly, this country, he added.
