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EXCLUSIVE: Robert Redford has set Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie and Richard Jenkins to star in The Company You Keep, the drama Redford is directing and starring in alongside Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte and Brit Marling. The film’s a co-production between Voltage Pictures and Wildwood Enterprises.
The film is an adaptation of the Neil Gordon novel, scripted by Lem Dobbs. It’s the story of an ex-Weather Underground militant wanted by the FBI for 30 years who must go on the run when his true identity is exposed by a young, ambitious reporter. Redford plays the former radical at the center of this nationwide manhunt, and LaBeouf is the determined journalist. Sarandon and Christie play former Weather Underground members who were accomplices in the bank robbery, and Jenkins plays a college professor who is a link to former radicals in hiding.
Redford, Bill Holderman and Nicolas Chartier are producing, and Craig J. Flores is the executive producer. Voltage Pictures is selling the picture internationally and the film begins production in Vancouver next month. Sarandon’s repped by ICM, Christie by WME, and Jenkins by Gersh.
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This actually looks kind of cool. Excited movies like these are starting to get made. Seems somebody is trying to get another shot at giving that Oscar speech.
Honestly, when I saw the first headline I thought this movie sounded like a piece of shit but, damn this cast is pretty solid. There’s no way it can be worse than Lions for Lambs!
Look at the leadership in this world! Yuppies must be held to task. This movie might be the one to address this.
Hopefully Redford will touch on this in a heavy 70s cinema way, and skip scenes of running through forests, etc.
I hardily agree! Don’t know the novel, but sounds brilliant. At last, one of those rare entities – a movie about something!
I feel like I lived this movie 3 years ago. At Teachers College, Columbia U. there is a professor who chaired Bill Ayers’ phd dissertation. During the media narrative of a possible Obama-Ayers connection, he came to visit her and left her room just before I walked in. For me, it was a brush with history and very, very current events (at the time). She spent the first hour of a 2 hour class talking about how hard it was for him to remain quiet and out of the media when witnessing lies and distortions told about him and the Weathermen on every channel. If done properly, this has the potential to be a great story well told. If done to maximize the hype of a stellar cast to sell tickets, maybe not.
Oy, this is going to be filmed? Why?
“Oy, this is going to be filmed? Why?”
Beats me. Sounds like just another liberal circle jerk so Redford can… what…launder money?
It was going so well until Shia Ladouche was mentioned.
I had exactly the same reaction. And I’ve yet to meet any critic or moviegoer who can’t stomach the supremely untalented and downright repulsive LaBarf. How this creep ever rose above being an extra is beyond me. Redford should know better!
Jepressman – guess you’d rather see Spiderman 16, while chewing gum and texting the jerk next to you.
Any one see the irony of this film being shot in Canada when so many radicals of that era had to hide out there!!!
There is no one more boring to watch on the big screen than Robert Redford. He is surrounding himself with a great cast but you can already chalk this one up to another Redford film that pulls in domestic box office in the high teens/low 20s with very little help internationally. I do think I’ll pick up a copy of the book though.
Wealthy white college kids “rose up” during the sixties, when their college deferments to draft were lifted. Suddenly, the great caucasian revolutionary tradition! These people went on to take credit for the Civil Rights movement (Good God…) and “Ending” the Vietnam War. Well, they did enjoy the drugs, sex and rock and roll, (on the dime of their Depression/WW2 parents…) and proceeded to adore themselves for the ensuing decades, right up to this very moment. They’ve been praising themselves and how “important” they are…ever since. So let us once again, praise these Great White Hopers, as they suit up with toupees, botox and personal assistants. We cannot love them enough. Gaia love, adore and praise them for their heroic…self adoration. Hug them! And give them all Oscars!
Well said. No, extremely well said. However we could use a dose of that ‘revolutionary spirit’ now. It does seem that Redford has made this movie many times already and there doesn’t seem to be any relevance there, just another ‘star vehicle.’ Why isn’t Warren Beatty in the cast?
Further proof that Shia LaBeouf has naked pictures of every powerful figure in Hollywood. There really is no other explanation
Spy Game Mark II. That’s all you need to know.
The notion that this 60′s redux Redford film is consciousness raising film making and DESERVES to be made in place of what? anything else is expecting too much of the film’s impact,which I assume would be neglible.And for the record I don’t chew gum and I don’t watch super hero/comic book movies. My idea of a hero is Hawkeye in Last of the Mohicans or Maximus in Gladiator or Sigourney Weaver in Aliens.
I love Redford’s films from the late 60′s and early to mid 70′s, but he is the single most boring film director of the last 40 years. Clint Eastwood worked for two great directors and yet he learned how to craft a film that informs and entertains. Redford worked with some of the best directors of the era and didn’t learn a thing. He can’t pace a film. Love Christie and Sarandon. Interesting and charismatic. Too bad Christie didn’t make a film with Redford 30 or 40 years ago. They are all old (I hate saying this since I’m not an ageist) and this will not make more than 20 million max. They’ll be lucky to open over 5 million and that’s a stretch. Most people under the age of 25 have no idea who most of these people are. The industry has changed and this should be on HBO. Redford should have hired Katharine Ross, so at least you get a reunion of Sundance and Etta and then the press at least would have that to play with.
Was looking forward to the stars and script until I saw that Shia LaCrap was in it…….This will seriously hurt the film…what the heck were they thinking?? Wish they had cast with someone who can give a good performance….maybe Ryan Gosling
Tell Mr. Redford that I will have to take a pass on this movie. May be a good flick, but I won’t support that anti-Catholic bigot Susan Sarandon. Ms. Sarandon and her liberal elite hollywood pals preach tolerance, but show their true colors when it comes to religion. Ms. Sarandon chose to leave the Catholic Church – it is a free country and she can do as she pleases. Why does she need to knock the faith she left? No one cares that she left, so why is she obsessed with slamming the Catholic Church? I notice the left hates the Catholic Church; mostly because they get away with it. They would never offend other groups, just us. I take it as a badge of honor to have these people hate me because of my faith.