‘Lion’ Trailer: Dev Patel Searches For His Long Lost Family
ProducerHarvey Weinsteinsees awards potential inLion, one of the two contenders he’s betting on this fall. The otherawards hopefulfilm coming from TWC, in Harvey Weinstein’s eyes, isThe Founder, based on the life of Ray Kroc. While that biopic is about a man driven by greed,Lionis a more kind-hearted and inspiring tale, about a man (Dev Patel) searching for his family.
Below, watch theLiontrailer.
Starring alongside Patel areRooney Mara,Nicole Kidman, and (an actor I’m always delighted to see)David Wenham. Wenham and Kidman, who co-starred inAustralia, play Saroo Brierley’s (Patel) adoptive parents. At the age of five, Saroo found himself lost in Calcutta. Unable to find his family, the young boy was then adopted by an Australian couple. 25 years later, he decides to search for his birth parents and brother. Written byLuke Davies(Life),Lionis based on a true story that Saroo first told in his non-fiction novelA Long Way Home.
Here’s theLiontrailer:
The drama isGarth Davis' first feature film, but he also directed five episodes of the acclaimed seriesTop of the Lake. Davis is already again working with Rooney Mara again on aMary Magdalenebiopic, so it’s easy to assume the two were happy with their experience onLion, which looks like a potentially emotional and moving drama. Nicole Kidman has been making some excellent choices lately, too –The Family Fang,The Killing of a Sacred Dear,How to Talk to Girls at Parties,Big LittleLies, andSofia Coppola’sThe Beguiled– so her involvement also inspires some confidence.
Here’s the synopsis from Tiff:
From the production team that brought us The King’s Speech comes Lion: the incredible true story of Saroo Brierley and his 25-year odyssey. Precocious five-year-old Saroo Khan is always up for an adventure. Eager to help his older brother Guddu with any odd job that will provide their family with much-needed money, Saroo follows Guddu everywhere he goes. One night the two boys are separated on a train platform in their native Madhya Pradesh, and Saroo winds up nearly a thousand miles away in Calcutta. Homeless in a strange city where he doesn’t speak the language, Saroo gets by on his street smarts until he is taken in by a government orphanage. When an Australian couple adopts him, he is taken to live with them in Hobart, Tasmania. It’s not until Saroo leaves that island as a young Australian man that he begins to wonder what became of his first home and the family he so adored. Ingeniously using satellite images from Google Earth, he finds a lead to follow up on. But the search for Saroo’s past threatens to overwhelm his present, and he finds himself further adrift than he ever imagined possible.
