Horton Foote’s Final Screenplay ‘Main Street’ Currently Shooting in Durham, North Carolina

An all-star ensemble is headed by Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn and Orlando Bloom

DURHAM, N.C., April 27 /PRNewswire/ — The film production of Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner Horton Foote’s final screenplay, “Main Street”, began in Durham, North Carolina on April 6th starring Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn and Orlando Bloom, with Andrew McCarthy, Tom Wopat, Margo Martindale and Victoria Clark heading the supporting cast. Tony Award-winning director John Doyle (the 2004 revival of “Sweeney Todd“) makes his feature film debut, with Donald M. McAlpine (Oscar nominee for “Moulin Rouge!“) serving as director of photography. Other members of the creative team include production designer Christopher Nowak (“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead“) and costume designer Gary Jones (“Spider Man 2“). “Main Street” is produced by Jonah Hirsch, Megan Ellison and Spencer Silna. Adi Shankar, Douglas Saylor Jr. and Ted Schipper are the executive producers.

“Main Street” is a contemporary drama about several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today’s challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community — from its Mayor to a local police officer to a once-wealthy tobacco heiress — will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.

Screenwriter Horton Foote, who passed away last month at the age of 92, completed work on this, his final screenplay, in 2008. Typical of Foote’s past film work (“Tender Mercies,” “The Trip to Bountiful“), “Main Street” focuses on the dreams and aspirations of everyday people, reflecting his early upbringing in Southern small town America. Horton Foote is renowned as one of America’s most prominent dramatists and screenwriters. His unique portraits of ordinary people trying to hold fast to their hopes and ambitions amidst loss and hardship in small towns established his voice as one of the most innovative, and prolific, of the American cultural scene in the last half century.

SOURCE David Linck