The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog is reporting that Richard Linklater‘s latest project – which was billed as a sort of spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused – has been put on hold:
“We still think it’s very marketable. It’s just has to go on the shelf for now,” said a rep for the director and his production banner Detour.
And if Linklater has to go on the shelf, what of all the slackers?
Linklater, who just celebrated the DVD release of his Augie Garrido doc Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach in town last week, will receive the Maverick Award at the Woodstock Film Festival in September. He’ll also screen his latest film Me and Orson Welles, which premiered to good reviews at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008, but was one of many films there to walk away without a buyer. Word is, Linklater will be self-distributing the film come fall.
This article appears in June 5 • 2009.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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