The new trailer to the Howard Hughes whatsit Rules Don't Apply starring Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich has arrived. It's written, directed, and produced by co-star and Hollywood royalty Warren Beatty as the eccentric billionaire previously played by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator.
Have you heard from people that I'm crazy?
Why yes, Warren we have. We see you've called in a few favors, too...
That cast list does read a bit as if someone drew it up in 1998 just after Warren Beatty's last directorial effort Bullworth. If the old saying "if you rest you rust" is true than Rules Don't Apply will be horrible. Warren Beatty also hasn't starred in a motion picture in 15. In pop culture years he basically doesn't exist anymore (sigh).
On the other hand, Warren Beatty is an icon and legend for a reason. What's more he has only directed four other movies in his career (Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy, and Bulworth) all of which were nominated for at least one Oscar (their average Oscar reception comes to about 7 nominations + 2 wins per picture which is quite a record of approval, you must agree). And it's worth noting that all of them were pretty damn good films.
We shall see.
Rules Don't Apply is the opening film for this year's AFI Fest (November in LA), the festival that tends to launch the hit-and-miss crop of last second Oscar contenders (in recent years that'd be films like Selma, American Sniper, The Big Short, The Gambler, and By the Sea)