Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) and BAFTA nominee Mike Faist (West Side Story) are set to star in a brand new West End stage adaptation of Annie Proulx’s brief story, Brokeback Mountain.
Written by Ashley Robinson (Fall of ’94) and directed by Jonathan Butterell (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), the brand new adaptation is described as “a play with music.” Hedges and Faist will play Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, cowboys who fall in love within the early ’60s and are pressured to hold on their affair in secret for many years. The music can be partially composed by Dan Gillespie Sells, finest recognized for his work with the rock band The Feeling, whereas Fairground Attraction‘s Eddi Reader “will carry out on stage with a rustic and western band together with a pedal metal guitarist,” based on Deadline. The adaptation is scheduled for a twelve-week run on the Soho Place Theatre in London beginning May 10. Tickets are on sale now.
The History of Brokeback Mountain‘s Success
Proulx’s story about cowboys pressured to hold on a love affair in secret for many years was beforehand tailored into a movie in 2005. Directed by Ang Lee (Life of Pi), the film featured an all-star forged together with Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, David Harbour, Anna Faris, Linda Cardellini, Kate Mara, and, within the roles of Del Mar and Twist, Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Ambulance).
Made on a reported funds of $14 million, Brokeback Mountain took residence greater than $178 million worldwide and was nominated for eight Oscars, together with performing nods for Ledger, Gyllenhall, and Williams. It finally gained three Academy Awards, for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (for Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana), and Best Score (Gustavo Santaolalla). Although the film was a cultural sensation that’s now thought-about probably the greatest Western romance motion pictures ever made, producers of the stage adaptation have pressured that their manufacturing can be primarily based completely on Proulx’s authentic story and never Lee’s movie model.
Hedges will subsequent be seen in Shirley, Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley’s movie about Shirley Chisholm, America’s first Black congresswoman (not too long ago portrayed by Wanda Sykes for History of the World, Part II… though Ridley’s film will presumably be much less comedic). Faist, in the meantime, has accomplished manufacturing on two high-profile movie tasks: The Bikeriders, written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Loving) and co-starring Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer and Austin Butler; and Challengers, a brand new movie from acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) by which he stars reverse Zendaya.
The play adaptation will start its run on the Soho Place Theatre in London on May 10.