Netflix has bought the rights toFelicity Jones' new movie after debuting to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. The English actress is perhaps best known to audiences for her portrayal of the rebel heroineJyn Erso inRogue One: A Star Wars Story. However, a few years prior in 2014, she appeared briefly in another franchise film,The Amazing Spider-Man 2, portraying Felicia Hardy, Harry Osborn’s sidekick at Oscorp.
Aside from those two franchise films, Jones has carved out a career for herself as a critically acclaimed actress. In 2015, she starred inThe Theory of Everythingand, opposite Eddie Redmanye’s Oscar-winning performance as Stephen Hawking, earned her own Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of his wife, Jane Wilde. Some of her other acclaimed performances have come in the romantic dramaLike Crazyand as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic,On the Basis of Sex.Jones is currently up for her second Oscar nominationfor her performance inThe Brutalist.
Netflix Buys The Rights To Train Dreams
The Movie Debuted To Rave Reviews At Sundance
Netflix has purchased the rights toTrain Dreamsafter debuting to rave reviews at Sundance. Directed by Clint Bentley, who co-wrote the script with Greg Kwedar based on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson, thefilm follows Joel Edgertonasa logger working to develop the railroad across the United States, causing him to spend significant time away from his wife (played by Felicity Jones) and daughter. The cast also includes Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Clifton Collins Jr., and Paul Schneider.
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Now, after debuting to rave reviews at Sundance,Netflix has bought the rights toTrain Dreams, perVariety. However, no release date has been announced. It’s the second sale out of Sundance this year afterTogether, a body horror film starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, was acquired by Neon for $17 million.
What Netflix Buying Train Dreams Means For The Movie
It Should Be An Awards Season Contender
Not only isTrain Dreamsled by two-time Oscar nominee Felicity Jones, currently in the running this year forThe Brutalist, butit’s also co-written by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, who also collaborated on the script forSing Sing, which is up this year for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars.Train Dreams' reviewscall it a beautifully shot, poetic, and introspective film about forgotten lives and fleeting moments, anchored by restrained yet powerful performances from Edgerton and Jones.Train Dreamswill clearly be a strong awards season contender, so Netflix should release it late this year.
