Awards season biopic ahoy! Hilary Swank stars in the story of Amelia Earhart’s plight to circumnavigate the globe via airplane. Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Mia Wasikowska and Virginia Madsen co-star. Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake) directs. Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan wrote the script.
The trailer throws me off by using John Murphy’s score to Sunshine making me think of a very different kind of film, but maybe there’s something good here. There’s decent enough talent behind it and at least this is a biopic that won’t involve anyone’s drug-fueled downward spiral so that’s something ‘fresh’. It could go with a more creative title though. Enough with the lazy biopic titles using the subject’s first name in order to fabricate some kind of intimate relationship between them and the audience.
Amelia will be released by Fox Searchlight on October 23rd.
