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May 23, 2024 · May 23, 2024. When director Ethan Hawke and fellow writer Shelby Gaines set out to make a film about Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor, they knew that whatever they made would not be a...
May 2, 2024 · Bedridden and anguished, the writer Flannery O’Connor is visited by a priest (Liam Neeson in a cameo) in “Wildcat,” starring Maya Hawke. Tormented by spiritual agony and the systemic lupus ...
- Brandon Yu
- Ethan Hawke
May 3, 2024 · Ethan Hawke’s screenplay, co-written with Shelby Gaines, was inspired by the letters to God that O’Connor wrote at the time, published posthumously as “A Prayer Journal” in 2013. Advertisement....
- Robert Abele
May 15, 2024 · Hawke and co-writer Shelby Gaines alternate between biopic segments from O’Connor’s brief and tough life (she died of lupus at age 39) and abridged adaptations of some of her often controversial and shocking short stories, which dealt with issues such as race, crime, class difference, faith and physical and emotional disabilities, often in a blu...
May 20, 2024 · Molly McCaul. May 20, 2024. Ethan Hawke's latest film is “Wildcat,” which he directed and co-wrote with Shelby Gaines. The film tells the story of acclaimed writer Flannery O’Connor, who grappled with Catholicism and “looming death” while writing at times wildly violent short stories and novels.
May 21, 2024 · In writing the story, Hawke said he and his collaborator, Shelby Gaines, let the author’s voice from her journals, short stories and novels create the narrative. He said the storyline comes from “curated dialogue” created by O’Connor, then made into the script. “I’m telling her life as an artist.
May 21, 2024 · O’Connor was a linear storyteller, so perhaps Hawke and cowriter Shelby Gaines made an odd choice by presenting her life in a nonlinear fashion. However, a “normal” Hollywood biography might easily have done O’Connor an injustice by tidying up her life. Wildcat is true to the messy spirit of one of America’s most remarkable authors.
