Bradley Cooper’s Behind the Camera and Michael Peña’s In Space in Two New Streaming Offerings
Two very different biopics about two very different men are coming to streaming.
Bradley Cooper’s directorial followup to A Star is Born keeps him in the world of music, and both in front of and behind the camera. Maestro, coming to Netflix on December 20th, chronicles the life and love of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, focusing mainly on his tumultuous 25-year marriage to Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan).
Maya Hawke plays their daughter, Jamie, and Sam Nivola plays their son, Alexander. Additional cast members include Matt Bomer, Sarah Silverman, Gideon Glick, Gabe Fazio, Eric Parkinson, William Hill, Nick Blaemire, Oscar Pavlo, Tim Rogan and Mallory Portnoy.
Prior to dropping on Netflix, Maestro is premiering at the Venice Film Festival in September before hitting select theaters in November, so this film offers Cooper another chance at an Academy Award. It was produced by Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger. Spotlight writer Josh Singer co-wrote the screenplay with Cooper, and Matthew Libatique (A Star Is Born) is the cinematographer.
Michael Peña dons a different kind of suit to portray NASA flight engineer and eventual astronaut Jose Hernandez in A Million Miles Away for Prime Video, coming to streaming on September 15th.
Hernández was a young man with a galaxy-sized dream, who went from working as a migrant farmworker to hopping on board a rocket and traveling to space. The film follows him and his devoted family of proud migrant farm workers on a decades-long journey that took him from a rural village in Michoacan, Mexico, to the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, to more than 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station.
With the support of his hard-working parents, relatives, and teachers, Jose’s unrelenting drive & determination culminates in the opportunity to achieve his seemingly impossible goal in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Directed by the critically-acclaimed Alejandra Márquez Abella (Northern Skies Over Empty Space, The Good Girls), the film also stars Garret Dillahunt (Deadwood), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Bobby Soto (Narcos: Mexico), Sarayu Blue (To All the Boys) and Veronica Falcon (Ozark).
The project is based on the autobiography Reaching for the Stars, with the late Bettina Gilois writing the initial script which was finished by Hernan Jimenez and Abella. Mark Ciardi and Campbell McInnes are producing.