Bum's Rush (Anne Hathaway, Bill Murray)

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[Aaron Schneider] also gives us a tease for his next film, Bum’s Rush – a drama starring Anne Hathaway that will also reunite him with Bill Murray as a narrating dog. Don’t worry, we won’t have to wait another decade for this one.

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Oh, definitely. To bring it home, your next project, Bum’s Rush, was just recently announced and the synopsis shows that it will clearly be a very different movie from Greyhound. What’s the thought process of moving from a war movie to a more personal story between a woman played by Anne Hathaway and a talking stray dog voiced by Bill Murray?

AS: Well, Bill Murray isn’t so much a talking stray dog. He’s lending his voice to the narrative. He’s kind of like a Greek chorus. He’s a narrator. So it’s not necessarily a talking dog movie. It’s a very unique film, hard to encapsulate in one sentence. It’s a drama seen through the mind’s eye of a dog, who is narrating what we’re seeing.

Interesting…

AS: It’s part of a Greek chorus kind of thing, but to answer your question about moving into a drama. My first film was a depression-era period film that had the tenor, tone, and pace of a folk tale, right? In Get Low, the old hermit living in the woods who decides to have his own funeral party before he dies. Then my next film was a Tom Hanks-actioner out on the high seas with guns, explosions, and Naval warfare – which ended up being a transition itself. But for me, going back to a drama is not so much of a head-snapping turn as it is just me turning my attention to yet another story that I really feel something for. I don’t make decisions on the films I want to do based on genre or how many explosions it has. It’s really about finding a way into a story that you really feel something for. The guns, hermits, log cabins, or the period piece streets – that’s just the setting. That’s just where the story takes place and what happens inside. So obviously, I won’t be walking around on a big steel destroyer. It will be a different experience on set, but it’s just me taking on another story that really moves and excites me.

via DiscussingFilm.net