Sundance It revolves around diamonds in James Sweeney’s sophomore year, In vainfor Where he stars opposite Dylan O’Brien in the Eccles Audience for one night of the 2025 Park City Festival edition. Title Republic Pictures is for sale.
Sweeney described the film as a “DePalma drama and sadness,” the story of a young man, Denise (played by Sweeney), who tragically loses his gay lover Rocky (Played by O’Brien). However, Rocky has a twin brother, Roman. Roman and Dennis find each other in a combination of double-loss bereavement, and a complicated bromance.
‘Pic’ returns to Sundance for producer David Bernot who sold the Jack Black comedy King of polka To Netflix, and to O’Brien who was here last year with Ponyboi. Sweeney gave props to the paint he discovered at Outfest for his movie straight.
In vain Comes from writer and actor James Sweeney. It is his Sundance debut. Sweeney had been working on the script for ten years, and sent it to O’Brien in 2020.
“I saw both Mazerunner Movies in theaters,” O’Brien joked about how he got on his radar. “It was this YouTube series actually Strange city If anyone sees it. It’s in the pilot episode. “
“I felt like he saw my voice and felt very confident in it,” he added of his leading man O’Brien, who “owns every emotional shift and beat” of the twin role he plays in the film.
“I’ve always been impressed by his range,” Sweeney said, “I just felt like this would be a different role for him.”
On how to achieve interesting screenplay pacing, Sweeney revealed “They say you write a film three times – once at the script stage, once on the set, and once in the edit.”
O’Brien added, “I opened up that script, and I couldn’t stop.” He further exclaimed that Multihyphenate is “all the elements of a fine director.”
