Project Detail

Me and Orson Welles

Name: Me and Orson Welles
Director: Richard Linklater
Released: 2009
Duration: 107 mins

Synopsis

The story of a whirlwind week in 1937 NYC when a young aspiring actor is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles’ historic staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. During this week, Richard will find romance with a worldly older woman, become immersed in a creative experience few are afforded, and learn the downside of crossing the imperious, brilliant Welles. Richard is about to grow up FAST.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 107 mins
Director: Richard Linklater
Producer: Steve Norris, John Sloss, Steve Christian
Co-Producer: Steve Norris, John Sloss, Steve Christian
Editor: Sandra Adair
Screenwriter: Holly Gent Palmo, Vince Palmo
Director of Photography: Richard Pope, BSC
Production Designer: Laurence Dorman
Sound: Colin Nicolson
Composer: Michael J McEvoy
Principal cast: Claire Danes, Zac Efron, Christian McKay

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

CinemaNX Productions One Limited and Detour Film Production

T +44 (0)20 7439 4900

Jessica.Parker@cinemanx.com

Sales Company

Odyssey Entertainment Ltd

10a James Street
London WC2E 8BT
UK

T +44 (0)20 7520 5610

ralph@odyssey-entertainment.co.uk

Contact: Ralph Kamp, James Scott

james@odyssey-entertainment.co.uk

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