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Going Places (2017 film)

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Directed by
  
John Turturro

Director
  
John Turturro

Producer
  
Sidney Kimmel

Distributed by
  
Cornerstone Films

Adapted from
  
Going Places

Written by
  
John Turturro

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Produced by
  
Sidney Kimmel Robert Salerno Paul-Dominique Vacharasinthu John Penotti Fernando Sulichin

Based on
  
Going Places by Bertrand Blier The Big Lebowski by Ethan Coen Joel Coen

Starring
  
John Turturro Bobby Cannavale Audrey Tautou Susan Sarandon Pete Davidson

Production companies
  
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment New Element Tribus P Films

Cast
  
John Turturro, Audrey Tautou, Susan Sarandon, Bobby Cannavale, Pete Davidson

Similar
  
The Big Lebowski, Illuminata, Romance & Cigarettes, Barton Fink, Mac

Going Places is an upcoming American crime comedy film directed, written by and starring John Turturro, acting as both a remake of the 1974 controversial French film of the same name by Bertrand Blier, and a spin-off to the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski by the Coen brothers, from which Turturro reprises his role as Jesus Quintana.

Contents

Like the original Going Places, it follows a trio of sexually-depraved misfits, played by Turturro, Bobby Cannavale, and Audrey Tautou.

Cast

  • John Turturro as Jesus Quintana, a bowling enthusiast and Latin American North Hollywood resident who speaks with a thick Puerto Rican accent, and often refers to himself in the third person as "the Jesus", using the English pronunciation of the name rather than the Spanish. As revealed in The Big Lebowski, he is a sex offender who spent six months in jail for exposing himself to an eight-year-old.
  • Bobby Cannavale as Petey
  • Audrey Tautou
  • Pete Davidson as Jack
  • Susan Sarandon as an ex-con recently out of prison
  • Sonia Braga
  • Nicolás Riera

    • Production

    The Coen brothers, who wrote, directed, and produced The Big Lebowski, stated on several occasions that they would never make a Lebowski sequel. However, John Turturro expressed keen interest in reprising his role as Jesus since 2011. Despite not being one of the film's writers, most of Jesus' character were Turturro's own ideas, which led the Coens to give him a bigger place in the film. In 2014, Turturro announced that he had requested permission from the Coens to use the character.

    In August 2016, it was announced that Turturro, after being granted the right to use the character of Jesus by the Coens, had already started filming the spin-off, which he would also write and direct. It was also announced the film would be a remake of the 1974 French film Going Places directed by Bertrand Blier, which was itself based on his own novel Les valseuses. The film was originally supposed to be titled 100 Minutes with Jesus. The Coen brothers are not involved in the production.

    Filming

    Filming of the film began in August 2016 in New York City.

    References

    Going Places (2017 film) Wikipedia
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