Hugh Jackman's Presidential Campaign Falls Apart in First Trailer For THE FRONT RUNNER
Hugh Jackman takes on the role of 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Gary Hart in the Jason Reitman directed film The Front Runner. The film tells the story of the rise of Hart, who could've been the president of the United States, and how his presidential campaign completely fell apart due to a scandal. That scandal involved an affair he was having with actress and model Donna Rice. The press went wild with the story and he wasn't ever able to get a handle on it so he dropped out of the race and never tried running again.
When talking about the film with EW, Reitman said:
"It was a moment in which the Hart campaign, The Washington Post, the Miami Herald, and Hart himself were trying to make decisions in real time with not enough information and no sense of how much the landscape had changed forever.
"This is a movie with a dozen different points of view. And you can already see in the trailer, you’re going to be observing this story from every perspective.
“When I heard the Gary Hart story for the first time, I couldn’t believe it had happened. And I couldn’t believe no one had made a movie about it yet."
This certainly looks like a fascinating film and it looks like Hugh Jackman once again delivers an incredible performance. The movie also stars Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Mamoudou Athie, Molly Ephraim, Steve Zissis, and Sara Paxton.
The film is based on Matt Bai’s All the Truth is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, and it takes us into "the backrooms where truths are drawn out and painful decisions are made."
The Front Runner will debut at the Telluride Film Festival and play TIFF, before opening in theaters on November 7, 2018.