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Wild
Sept 14, 2014 7:20:56 GMT -6
Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 14, 2014 7:20:56 GMT -6
variety.com/2014/scene/festivals/toronto-film-festival-reese-witherspoon-and-cast-celebrate-wild-1201303079/Riding in on the positive reception from the Telluride Film Festival, the cast and creators of Fox Searchlight’s “Wild” landed at the Shangri-La Hotel Garden Terrace Sept. 8, for a convivial two-hour soiree preceding the film’s international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. “Wild” star Reese Witherspoon, who plays a self-destructive woman who takes a solo 1,000-mile trek up on the Pacific West Trail, mingled with her onscreen mom Laura Dern and writer Cheryl Strayed — whose bestselling 2012 memoir, the basis of the film, was optioned by Witherspoon’s prodco Pacific Standard — and Brit novelist Nick Hornby, who wrote the screenplay. Director Jean-Marc Vallee — whose previous pics, including last year’s “Dallas Buyers Club,” have all preemed in Toronto — said that while he’s not much of a hiker himself, he did join Witherspoon on one of her hikes during their time in Telluride. “It was beautiful but I could only last two hours,” he said. “The bugs were crazy.”
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