James Gray is set to direct a new movie, this after his long-delayed “Ad Astra” finally hit theaters two Septembers ago to positive reviews. This new project, titled “Armageddon Time,” will bring Gray back to New York. If you remember, Gray’s first 5 movies ( “Little Odessa,” “The Yards,” “We Own the Night,” “Two Lovers,” and “The Immigrant”) were all set in the Big Apple.
Gray will write and direct “Armageddon Time,” which stars Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac, Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro in “an autobiographical drama about growing up in mid-1980s Queens, New York.” More intriguingly it seems as though Donald Trump and his late father Fred will be one of the characters involved in the story. We all know who Donald is, but his less-famous father Fred was a Queens-based real estate developer who mentored Donald into the eventual real estate mogul that he would become.
The film is set to start filming this coming October in the Bronx, New Jersey and Manhattan. Although plot specifics have been kept at a minimum thus far, a leaked production descriptor has leaked online and given us a far bigger picture about what might be in store for us. It seems that, at its heart, “Armageddon Time” is a coming-of-age tale about white privilege.
