‘Train Dreams’: Read The Screenplay For ‘Sing Sing’ Duo’s Latest Journey To A Particula…

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‘Train Dreams’: Read The Screenplay For ‘Sing Sing’ Duo’s Latest Journey To A Particular Time And Place

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the buzziest movies of the awards season continues with Train Dreams, Netflix‘s period drama directed by Clint Bentley, who again collaborated with his Sing Sing co-screenwriter Greg Kwedar to adapt Denis Johnson’s 2011 Pulitzer-finalist novella. Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, William H. Macy and Kerry Condon star.

The film debuted at Sundance where it was scooped up by Netflix and, as if carried on the railroads built by its protagonist, has gained steam ever since for its tale of Robert Grainier (played by Edgerton), a laborer in the early 20th century Pacific Northwest who we watch experience love, loss and the rapidly changing world around him.

Train Dreams

Netflix;
Drama;
Rated PG-13 for some violence and sexuality.
Stars Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Nathaniel Arcand, John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Clifton Collins Jr., Will Patton.

Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams is not a film that moves with the frantic pulse of modern cinema, but rather one that breathes with the slow, deliberate respiration of the Earth itself. Adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, the movie serves as an ode to a lost American era, centering on the life of Robert Grainier, a man whose existence is defined by the very landscape he helped scar and settle. The production design at times feels a bit too “magic hour” and curated for a period known for its documented grit, but there is an undeniable, haunting power in its aesthetic. It presents the Idaho Panhandle not as it strictly was, but as it remains, in the haze of a long-lived memory: a cathedral of timber and ghosts.

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