The Front Runner
Hugh Jackman has divvy up the first image from the set of Jason Reitman ’s political biopicThe Front Runner . Jackman starsin the picture as Gary Hart , the 1988 popular presidential candidate whose hopeful campaign was derailed when he became embroiled in a sex outrage that detonate into one of the biggest tabloid stories of the epoch .
ground onAll the Truth is Out : The Week Politics Went Tabloidby Matt Bai , The Front Runnertracks the rise of Hart from his days as a Colorado senator to his running play for the popular nomination in ' 88 when he was position as the inspiring Kennedy - style nominee . Hart was reckon the front runner when intelligence of his thing with example Donna Rice broke in the legitimate press and then , in a prelude to the explosion of sensationalism that would sweep up the media in the next decade , became fodder for countless lurid tabloid headlines . Hart was forced to withdraw in disgrace , leading to the eventual nomination of Michael Dukakis who went on to be crushed in the presidential race by George H.W. Bush . Many still inquire how American history might have been dissimilar had the dynamic Hart gone on to react Bush instead of the relatively flat Dukakis .
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Hugh Jackman has been tap to toy Gary Hart in Reitman ’s picture show of the politico ’s rise and fall , and the actor has shared the first image from the set . The look-alike show up Jackman as Hart await to be engaged in a argument in front of a crowd of what mostly looks like unseasoned people .
Day 1 . Principal photography . The Front Runner.#thefrontrunner@JasonReitman@BronStudiospic.twitter.com/oHdi3hYQ2O — Hugh Jackman ( @RealHughJackman)September 18 , 2017
The Front Runnermarks the return of author - director Jason Reitman to the form of topical filmmaking he has mostly shied by from since his well - reviewed launching featureThank You For Smokingwhere he tackled the powerful D.C. tobacco anteroom . Reitman ’s careerhit a peakin 2009 when his filmUp in the Airsnagged six Oscar nomination including Best Picture , Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay . Reitman ’s last photographic film , 2014’sMen , Women & Children , made comparatively little encroachment despite a timely story and telling cast .
With the decidedly dynamical andever - theatricalJackman in the booster cable , perhaps Reitman can get citizenry interested in his depiction of a political scandal that has largely been forget over the years , becoming completely overshadowed by subsequent bombshell political narrative let in Chief Executive Bill Clinton ’s own sordid , tabloid - fire sex scandal . Reitman himself has name the movie as a clowning with a semisweet quality , and has say he is remove the film to help understand how the political and medium landscape develop to become what they are today .
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The cast ofThe Front Runneralso includesVera Farmiga , J.K. Simmons , Kaitlyn Dever , Mike Judge , Sara Paxton and Kevin Pollack .
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