The result is “Last Flag Flying”, a story as tough and tender, sad and funny.as “The Last Detail“.
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THR reports that he’s starting to put the cast together, with Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne all in talks to star. The film acts as a sequel to the 1973 movie The Last Detail, which was in turn an adaptation of Ponicsan’s 1970 novel of the same name.
Now it looks like Linklater is finally hoisting it up the flagpole, with sources telling The Hollywood Reporter that Amazon Studios has landed the pic. The Last Detail was nominated for three Oscars, and Nicholson won a BAFTA for his work.
Ordering Carell, Cranston and Fishburne to the high seas, Linklater had initially meant to reunite Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid and Otis Young – the trio that headlined the 1973 comedy-drama based on The Last Detail – but such blue-sky thinking fizzled out pretty quickly.
“Last Flag Flying” focuses on the trio who are now living in a post-9/11 world and Buddusky and Mulhall come to the aid of the ex-con who is trying to bring home the body of his son, who was killed in Iraq, while retracing their journey from Norfolk, Virginia, to Portsmouth. This year they backed Woody Allen’s wise Cafe Society and The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn’s faulty yet fascinating riff on Giallo.
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Carell was most recently seen in “The Big Short”. On the other hand, Cranston will soon be circling back to the ’90s for Lionsgate’s live-action Power Rangers reboot, while Fishburne is part of the crew jetting off into deep space in Morten Tyldum’s Passengers.
