Timothée Chalamet is a Meth Addict in Beautiful Boy Teasers

Beautiful Boy

Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell star in the teasers for the true history memoir , Beautiful Boy . Though Chalamet relegate out last year thanks to his turn as lovestruck young Elio inCall Me By Your Name , that was far from the only meaning movie that the actor made in 2017 . He also played supporting theatrical role in fellow Best Picture Oscar nomineeLady Birdand Scott Cooper ’s brutal westernHostiles , further cementing his status as the hot unexampled thing in the earth of indie photographic film .

Beautiful Boystars Chalamet as Nic Sheff , a young man who develops a terrible glass dependence that alienate him from his lovingness father David ( Carell ) . The film is based on the memoir written by the real life story David and Nic , titledBeautiful Boy : A Father ’s Journey Through His Son ’s AddictionandTweak : Growing Up on Methamphetamines . Some years back , Cameron Crowe was impound to adjust the Sheffs ' stories for the big covert , with Mark Wahlberg circling the role of David . evidently , that interlingual rendition of the movie did n’t pan out andBeautiful Boywas instead directed by Belgium movie maker Felix Van Groeningen ( The Broken Circle Breakdown ) .

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Amazon Studios has unveiled a pair of tormenter forBeautiful Boy , in the lead of the full - length trailer expiration . The first , entitle " Who Are You " , counterpoint conniption from Nic ’s seemingly happy animation with his drug use and an emotional confrontation with his founder . The second teaser , titled " This is Me " , spotlights how Nic and David have raise apart over the years , in part fuel by Nic ’s drug contumely .

write by Luke Davies ( Lion),Beautiful Boyalso starsIT ’s Jack Dylan Grazer as the 12 - yr honest-to-god version of Nic , along with Maura Tierney ( The Affair ) as Nic ’s stepmother Karen and Amy Ryan ( Birdman ) as Nic ’s biologic mother Vicki . Amazon has already pose the photographic film to be an prize season challenger by position it for a fall theatrical launch . At the moment , Beautiful Boy ’s opening weekend competition includes the sequelGoosebumps : Haunted Halloweenand the Neil Armstrong space dramaFirst Man(Damien Chazelle ’s own likely Oscar contender ) . Chalamet , for his part , will be back onscreen well before then in this July ’s coming of years dramaHot Summer Nights .

Chalamet and Carell may well end up surrender awards suitable performances inBeautiful Boy , if the worked up first look teaser footage is any index . The film is thematically in business with Groeningen and Davies ' just old work , indicate the pair will similarly handle the Schiffs ' experience with the sensitiveness they deserve . If nothing else , the motion picture should proffer further cogent evidence that Chalamet is a young act as talent that will continue to thrive for twelvemonth to descend .