Bryce Dallas Howard To Direct ‘Sorta Like A Rock Star’
By Jack Giroux/July 30, 2017 11:00 am EST
Below, learn more about the potential Bryce Dallas Howard directorial debut.
Here’s the book’s synopsis:
Over a year ago, Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl) was attached to direct with a script from Ol Parker (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Whether Howard is sticking with Parker’s script isn’t mentioned in Variety’s report. Over the years, Howard has done great work in front of the camera, but she’s been directing for a while now. She first directed a play, No Exit, and later on, a production of Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth with her husband. Since then, in addition to directing shorts and Lilly Collins in M-83’s “Claudia Lewis” video, she’s supported aspiring filmmakers with Canon’s “Long Live Imagination” campaign – a contest involving making a short based on a series of photos.
Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom’s boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy (aka Thrice B) have been camped out in the back of Hello Yellow (the school bus her mom drives). But Amber, the self-proclaimed princess of hope and girl of unyielding optimism, refuses to sweat the bad stuff. Instead, she focuses on bettering the lives of her alcoholic mother and her quirky circle of friends: a glass-ceiling-breaking single mother raising a son diagnosed with autism; Father Chee and The Korean Divas for Christ (soul-singing ESL students); a nihilist octogenarian; a video-game-playing gang of outcasts; and a haiku-writing war vet. But then a fatal tragedy threatens Amber’s optimism—and her way of life. Can Amber continue to be the princess of hope?
Here’s the short she directed collaborating with Cannon:
