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when the street lights go on
For me, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival was a blah year. I absent some of the big fizz films and whileI saw some acceptable movies (The Big Sick actuality the best of the bunch), it aloof didn’t admeasurement up to accomplished years in Park City. I ability be that bigger, added black things were accident in the apple alfresco of indie cinema. Or it aloof ability be that my agenda was ailing planned.
Either way, I concluded up in a columnist screening for the TV Pilot Showcase, area for the aboriginal year in Sundance history they were screening tv pilots afterwards a home. I watched a brace acceptable episodes in this screening, bidding me to address a column titled One of the Best Things I Saw at Sundance 2017 Was a TV Pilot. A bivouac for the appearance in question, When The Street Lights Go On, has now been appear online for the accomplished apple to see. Watch it now afterwards the jump.
I’m not abiding the bivouac aloft is the best representation of the pilot adventure (the articulation over seems a bit much) but you can see the accurate aspirations. As far as I know, Paramount TV and Anonymous Content accept yet to acquisition a home for this tv series, which is a shame. The bivouac above, which quotes me prominently, debuted online today.
The pilot was produced for Hulu who absitively to canyon on the appearance which was directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays In The Picture, Chicago 10). The coming-of-age adventure is set in the summer of 1983 and tells the adventure a boy who discovers a adolescent babe and a abecedary murdered in a car in the woods. The official artifice abridgment follows:
In the summer calefaction of 1983, a cord of abnormal occurrences in a baby Illinois boondocks culminate with the abominable murders of a accepted aerial academy babe and her teacher. When a adolescent student, and neighbor, discovers the bodies while benumbed his bike home one night, the quiet burghal lives of the town’s association are assuredly shaken.
As I wrote in my allotment from Sundance:
The pilot was actual cinematically attempt and (if it had had an ending) could accept calmly played side-by-side with the bigger attempt affection films in the fest. When the Street Lights Go On definitely has a Stand By Me meets Virgin Suicide vibe, and appearance an amazing soundtrack of archetypal ’80s pop songs and some able performances from a abundantly adolescent cast. … The best affair I can say about When The Street Lights Go On is that I badly appetite to see added and acquisition out what happens next. I don’t appetite this television alternation to abatement into the abysm of pilots that never got best up.
The alternation was originally a affection calligraphy by then-21-year-old AFI students Chris Hutton and Eddie O’Keefe which became the second-ranking calligraphy on the 2011 Black List, under The Imitation Game (which was produced and won an Oscar for acclimatized screenplay). Drew Barrymore initially became absorbed to direct, but somehow the activity fell into development heck. It was reborn as a tv series, which now no best has a home.
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