The Rover Included In Ioncinema’s Top 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2013
Smart people over at Ioncinema. LOVE to see The Rover being recognised.
#27. David Michod’s The Rover
The Rover
Director/Writer: David Michôd
Producer(s): David Linde and Liz Watts
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce, Scoot McNairyHis four-star, stellar criminal underworld saga Animal Kingdom officially put first-time helmer David Michod on the map. His sophomore film was a top sales title in Cannes 2012, and the pic contains an impressive trio of three so far (further casting announcements should be made shortly) with Scoot McNairy easily enjoying his time in the spotlight.
Gist: The Rover is set in the Australian desert in a dangerous and dysfunctional near future. Eric (Guy Pearce) has left everything and every semblance of human kindness behind him. When his last possession, his car, is stolen by a gang of dangerous criminals, Eric sets off to track them down and is forced along the way to enlist the help of Reynolds (Robert Pattinson), the naive member of the gang left behind in the bloody chaos of the gang’s most recent escape.
Release Date: Production begins this month in Australia, so this means programmers from Telluride, Venice, Toronto, NYFF all have wishes of nabbing a world premiere. Surprisingly, no U.S. distributor has sunk their fangs into this.
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Maria
See that’s what I’ve been telling people who keep asking if we are getting a premiere. We might – it might mean Rob isn’t involved – I’ll be surprised if this film doesn’t have a premiere at one of the Film Festivals mentioned. Animal Kingdom had it’s world premiere in 2010 at Sundance and that was a 100% Aussie film.
Don’t worry it also had premieres in Sydney & Melbourne. I’m just preparing you all for what might be. At the end of the day – whatever is best for the movie is what counts. And even if they do a premiere back in Oz there’s no guarantees Rob will be available, but a bonus for us if he is and he comes.
Cindy
Exactly @Maria Gets a bit like counting the chickens before they hatch.
Silvie
Is there any chance that US could come late to the party? And is it helpful to have them take part? I suppose the more the better.
Maria
What are you talking about Silvie? Do you mean because the US has no distributor? That has nothing to do with making the movie. This is a full Australian production. The fact it doesn’t have US distribution just means that if noone picks it up it won’t be screened in the US.
The same thing happened to How To Be in Australia – it could not get an Australian distributor which is why RPAU held the only Australian cinema screening. It has nothing to do with the making of the movie 🙂
Silvie
Maria, I don’t know what I’m talking about either. I think I was super tired yesterday and couldn’t make sense of anything.
Carmel
@ Maria – ‘ What are you talking about ” And HTB in the same comment made me laugh