Raising Hope

New film: Revenge for Jolly!

IndieWIRE reports that Garret has made another film, called Revenge for Jolly! It was written by Brian Petsos and directed by Chadd Harbold, who also made One Night Only. Here is some more info:

Actors Oscar Isaac, Elijah Wood, Adam Brody, Ryan Phillippe, Kristen Wiig, David Rasche, Kevin Corrigan, Garret Dillahunt, Bobby Moynihan, and Gillian Jacobs are all part of the recently wrapped “Revenge For Jolly!” directed by short filmmaker Chadd Harbold and starring Brian Petsos. (…)

A dramatic dark comedy, “Revenge For Jolly!” follows a man (Petsos) who, with the help of his cousin (Oscar Isaac), seeks to avenge the death of his beloved dog, who was killed under confusing and suspicious circumstances. The two men follow a series of clues in an attempt to track down the dog’s murderer, leaving a path of destruction in their wake.

With all these names, it’s probably safe to presume that many of these appearances amount to small roles or cameos.

In other news, Famlee has had a title change and is now called Any Day Now.

Garret will do another show with The Thrilling Adventure Hour folks on October 1.

Slightly OT at this point, but big congrats to the Alphas creative team on getting picked up for a second season! Syfy made the announcement earlier today.

And AOL TV has posted an exclusive clip from the Raising Hope DVD, a deleted scene with Garret and Lucas Neff:

Raising Hope season two promotional photos

Fox has released the first promotional photos for season two. Click to enlarge:

They’ve also put out the pics from the episode “Prodigy,” with Greyson Chance guest starring as the young Jimmy. The episode is listed as 2×01 (Sept. 20, 9:30), even if earlier reports said that “Kidnapped,” with Sean Bridgers, would be the season opener. The photos are here: Raising Hope 2×01, Prodigy. Here is the press release:

JIMMY CHANCE SINGS THE BLUES ON THE SEASON TWO PREMIERE OF “RAISING HOPE” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, ON FOX

Greyson Chance makes a Special Guest Appearance

garret dillahunt,raising hope,greysone chanceWhen Jimmy watches a home video of himself as a thirteen-year-old (guest star Greyson Chance), he discovers that he was a musical prodigy with a promising career as a singer and pianist until a horrible accident involving a golf putter rendered him talentless. Jimmy recruits Burt, Virginia and Maw Maw to help him rediscover his lost abilities in the “Prodigy” season premiere episode of RAISING HOPE airing Tuesday, Sept. 20 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (HOP-202) (TV-PG D, L, V)

baby hope,baylie cregut,raising hopeCast:

Lucas Neff as Jimmy; Martha Plimpton as Virginia; Garret Dillahunt as Burt; Shannon Woodward as Sabrina; Cloris Leachman as Maw Maw

Guest Cast:

Baylie & Rylie Cregut as Hope; Greyson Chance as Young Jimmy; Andy Umberger as Dr. Finklestein; Aimee McKay as Woman; Blake Hogue as Employee; Greg Barnett as Instructor; Derik Nelson as Young Jimmy Singer

Raising Hope season preview & summer movie #3 revealed

A couple of quick updates.

The Daily Beast has a nice three-page interview with Alan Cumming, Garret’s co-star in the mystery movie set in the 1970s, filmed over the summer. On page three, he talks about being harassed by Cloris Leachman and mentions this:

The film I did this summer was with Garret Dillahunt. We played boyfriends in [Famlee] and we had such a laugh.

Here is the synopsis, from Cumming’s site:

Famlee was written and directed by Travis Fine and is the story of a gay couple in the 1970s and their struggle to keep custody of a down syndrome child who they have become fathers to.

And here is another bit from a casting call posted at FamleeMovieCasting.com:

In 1975 Marco is the neglected son of a junkie mother. When the mother is arrested, charged and incarcerated, Marco is befriended and taken in by his neighbor, a flamboyant female impersonator who gets Marco the care and education that he has been missing. The film is a fictional story of a real account. Marco’s speech needs to be good enough to be understood by strangers, which doesn’t always work in his favor, due to the potty mouth he has developed while living with his mother.

Isaac Levya plays the son and Frances Fisher is also in the film. She mentioned it on Twitter back in June.

Elsewhere, Fox Broadcasting has uploaded a short interview with Garret and Martha on YouTube (after the teaser), in which they give away a few details about season two:

And Fox News has a short interview with Lucas Neff and Shannon Woodward.

The show returns in 19 days – Tuesday, September 20 at 9:30/8:30c.

Updates: Amigo, Alphas, Raising Hope

But let’s start with Beastwizard. io9.com has a hilarious little interview with TSCC’s Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller this week that you can (and should) check out here: The secret history of Beastwizard.

Syfy has released the promotional pics from Garret’s episode of Alphas.

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There are a couple more on the Alphas page. The episode airs on Monday, August 29.

Amigo finally opens in a limited release in the U.S. tomorrow. You can find the list of theatres here. The film will also be shown at the Albuquerque Film Festival tonight.

There are a couple of great interviews with John Sayles at NY Mag and Twitch Film. A couple of snippets:

Where did you base your characters on?
Chris (Cooper)’s character was based on someone very specific named ‘Hell Roaring Jake Smith’ who was famous for telling his subordinates, “I want you to make this place howling wilderness. The more you kill and burn, the more you will please me. And I want you to kill every one out of ten Filipinos who are capable of carrying arms,” which meant anybody older than 10. So yes, we had some hard-ass characters like the Colonel who had bullet in his hip from the Civil War who were useful in that kind of military operation. The Mayor is based on hundreds of other mayors that I read about, who got killed by one side or the other. Garret Dillahunt’s character (Lt. Compton) is very much based on the soldiers’ letters to home, who might have liked the army life but had very mixed feelings about their mission. Garret asked me about the character. He asked if he could play a character who likes being in charge but doesn’t really know where to lead them. …
How is Amigo being distributed?
The supportive mid-90s to early 2000 independent film environment doesn’t exist anymore. Even the movies with big names don’t get distributed and go directly to video. They don’t want to take the gamble with dramas. It’s either comedies or comic book superhero movies. The 30 plus weeks in the theater days are over. It’s all about opening weekend where they recoup the money and the 2-3 weeks run at best. For smaller movies, studios can’t take their chances. Even if they do put up the money to make it, they ask you to spend your money for the promotion and distribution. So I’m going back to what I did with couple of my first films. I made 12 prints of the film (10 on film and 2 digital) and hit 12 mainstream theaters throughout the country where there are large Filipino-American population. If it does well, then we will make more prints and art house theaters distribution will follow.

raising hope DVDLast, IGN has the DVD details for Raising Hope. Here is the list of bonus features:

— Exclusive featurettes
— Deleted and extended scenes
— Gag reel
— Commentaries
— Unaired pilot never shown on television

The DVD is out on September 20. You can pre-order it on Amazon.com.