“I started working at KZSU doing halftime shows, which evolved into public affairs … learning to edit reel-to-reel tape with razor blades and tape and telling a story by putting pieces together in different orders and that led to being interested in film. Roach’s path to directing was an unusual one that actually began in radio. He was initially on the pre-law track at Stanford University when he began working at the campus radio station.
Who knows what he would have written? Civilization lost out on our artists’ output.” He takes on this giant, evil system and kind of wins, but kind of lost something really tragic, which is 13 years of the opportunity to write. I was like, that’s a story, an American underdog story.
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… He somehow survives the situation and copes with it by just writing, and he writes his way out of both literal jail and figurative movie jail to do this great work. The only way he got to write … was he wrote in the black market. “Imagine what he could have written in those 13 years that he was forbidden from writing for studios. “Dalton was one of the most talented screenwriters of his day,” Roach tells WTOP. The outcast writer is forced to pen Oscar-winning scripts like “Roman Holiday” (1953) and “The Brave One” (1956) under pseudonyms - or “fronts” - while serving jail time under subpoena by the House Un-American Activities Committee.Īlong the way, Trumbo strains his relationship with his wife (Diane Lane) and kids, finding scrap work rewriting B-movie scripts for schlock producer Frank King (John Goodman). It all builds up to his pair of epic 1960 screenplays for Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus” and Otto Preminger’s “Exodus,” which finally returned his name to the screen. Fittingly, the former was about a slave’s revolt against the Roman Empire, while the latter was about Israel’s struggle to become an independent state.
Just like that, humble director Jay Roach delivers the self-deprecating humor that worked so well in “Austin Powers” and “Meet the Parents” and the social cognizance that defined “Game Change” and “Recount,” a blend that beautifully comes together this weekend in his new movie “Trumbo.”īased on Bruce Cook’s book, the dramatic biopic - with interludes of biting humor - follows the true story of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston), who is blacklisted as a suspected communist during the McCarthyist 1950s. And if those are sold out, come and see ‘Trumbo’ because it’s a really cool film.” WASHINGTON - “If you see one movie this weekend, see ‘Spotlight.’ If two, see ‘Spectre,’ ’cause you just have to probably.
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