Writer/director Richard Linklater is celebrating one of his most successful, critically and financially, movies ever with Boyhood. And as he works on his follow-up That's What I'm Talking About, it appears the Dazed and Confused creator is keeping a good thing going.
It's no secret this new movie, which recently wrapped production, connects spiritually to Linklater's past films, as he has long called the "sequel" to the aforementioned Dazed and Confused. The new film centers on a single weekend in the 1980s with a group of college-aged kids, much like . But speaking with Creative Screenwriting, Linklater also explained how That's What I'm Talking About merges to his acclaimed coming-of-age picture.
Forewarning, if you haven't seen Boyhood and somehow think it has a shocking third act (and it doesn't), you may want to proceed through the director's quotes carefully.
"Well, I think the word 'spiritual' gets me off the hook," Linklater explained. "I just shot it and wrapped it recently, and it has nothing to do with Dazed and Confused other than it would be set four years later, when one of the younger characters went off to college. It’s a party film. It’s really about the beginning of school, not the end of the school year. I guess personally or autobiographically it’s kind of in that realm, but it’s also a continuation of Boyhood, believe it or not."
"I don’t know if one film can be a sequel to two different movies, but it begins right where Boyhood ends with a guy showing up at college and meeting his new roommates and a girl," the director continued. "It overlaps with the end of Boyhood."
Between these films and his great Before trilogy, it's not surprise to see Linklater continue his study on characters and their passage of time. So the fact he will do the same here is no real surprise at all. Starring Tyler Hoechlin (Teen Wolf), Blake Jenner (Glee) and Wyatt Russell (22 Jump Street), That's What I'm Talking About hits theaters next fall.
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