Last Flag Flying
Steve Carell , Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne are Vietnam War buddies who reunify 30 years later on for one last melancholy road trip in the trailer for Richard Linklater ’s Modern play , Last Flag fly . The movie from Amazon Studios and Lionsgate is based on novelist Darryl Ponicsan’ssequel to his 1970 novelThe Last Detail , which was itself adapted into a classic film starring Jack Nicholson and Randy Quaid and directed by the legendary Hal Ashby .
In Linklater’sLast Flag Flying , former medic Doc Shepard ( Carell ) meets up again with his one-time friends - brash ex - Marine Sal Nealon ( Cranston ) and Reverend Richard Mueller ( Fishburne ) - to transport the body of his son , a Marine who was killed in the Iraq war . Linklater ’s film is not an official sequel to the 1973 movieThe Last contingent , as the characters ' names and bios have been change ; rather , the cinema stand as a sort of spiritual replacement to Ashby ’s picture .
Amazon Studioshas drop a melancholy first trailer forLast Flag Flying , highlighting Cranston ’s performance as the grizzled Sal Nealon , a bartender who drops everything to assist his older friend Doc after his son ’s body is shipped back from Iraq and must be enrapture home to New Hampshire for sepulture . Together the two encounter up with Reverend Mueller , who used to be a " first - class drinker and gambler , " and venture on a route trip up the East Coast - during which they reminisce about Vietnam and grapple with their notion about more young men like Doc ’s Word being transmit off to expire in war .
With its sombre medicine including a snip from Neil Young ’s " Old Man",the trailer promises a amusing - but - wistful portrait of comradery in the face of botheration and loss . Richard Linklater wrote the script along with novelist Darryl Ponicsan .
The originalLast Detailstarred Jack Nicholson and Otis Brown as a pair of hard - living Navy lifer tasked with transporting a youthful sailor ( Randy Quaid ) to jail to begin serving an eight - year sentence . The older man take pity on the vestal young prisoner and decide to show him a unspoilt clock time - involving luck of drinking , fighting and go to prostitutes - before sending him to the brig . The film earned Nicholson and Quaid Oscar nominations and has since reach classic position , largely thanks to Hal Ashby ’s offbeat direction .
Linklater in some path has take up the pall of Hal Ashby , a director who was known for bringing a certain unique , not - necessarily - commercial-grade sensibility to a blanket compass of fabric . The Last Detailis a motion picture with a lot of ira in it but also a mickle of sorrow and humor , and at least going by the laggard , it appears Linklater has attempt to enchant some of that same mix of emotion inLast Flag Flying . The eclectic music director ofBoyhoodandDazed and Confusedwill postdate up with the comedyWhere’d You Go Bernadette?starring Cate Blanchett , Judy Greer , Billy Crudup and Kristen Wiig .
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