‘Life’ Trailer: Dane DeHaan And Robert Pattinson Hit The Road In James Dean Biopic
Dane DeHaanplays James Dean in the first trailer forAnton Corbijn’sLife, alongsideRobert Pattinsonas theLifemagazine photographer sent to profile him.
The premise is not unlike that of the recent David Foster Wallace biopicThe End of the Tour: the two embark on a road trip just as the tragically short-lived superstar is beginning his ascent, revealing and rediscovering themselves along the way. Watch theLifetrailer after the jump.
Dazed debuted theLifetrailer onYouTube.
The real-life Dennis Stock (the character played by Pattinson) was responsible for some of the most iconic images we have of Dean, includingthat rainy Times Square photo. The pair met at a party in 1955, shortly beforeEast of Edenlaunched Dean’s high-flying career. As the pair traveled together to Los Angeles, New York, and Dean’s home state of Indiana, they developed a friendship.
TheLifetrailer certainly looks good, and DeHaan and Pattinson look like an intriguing combination. Unfortunately,Lifehas gotten so-so reviews on the festival circuit so far.Somehave described it as “engaging [and] elegiac,” whileothersfound it “worryingly and ironically lifeless.”
Cinedigm is releasingLifein the U.S., but hasn’t yet set a date. The film opens September 9 in France and September 25 in the U.K.Ben KingsleyandJoel Edgertonalso star.Luke Davies(Candy) wrote the script.
Corbijn’s follow-up to A Most Wanted Man, LIFE captures the nuances and complexities of the relationship between photographer and subject in a way rarely seen or understood by someone outside the business. In a nod to Corbijn’s own past experience, the film is told from the perspective of the Life photographer Dennis Stock (played by Pattinson) who meets and profiles Dean (DeHaan) for the magazine, turning out some of Dean’s most iconic photographs.
