Is This Thing On? It is the third film directed by Bradley Cooper

After A Star Is Born And Master, Bradley Cooper Come back the camera for Is This Thing On?his third director’s film that will arrive at the cinema in America on December 19th after the world preview at the New York Festival scheduled for October 10th. Cooper, who is also a screenwriter and producer of the film, decided to cut out a role not as a protagonist at this round, letting the scene be to occupy the scene Will Arnett and Laura Dern, escorted among others by Andra Day, Sean Hayes and Amy Sedaris.

At the center of the film, written with the collaboration of Mark Chappell and Arnett himself, there are Alex And Cardtwo people who try to face their divorce as painlessly as possible while the first is struggling with the beginning of his career as a stand-up comedian in New York. To inspire this story to Bradley Cooper was the life of English Josh Bishop, Comedian, actor, presenter and former professional football player: «The film does not speak of a middle -aged crisis but about a middle -aged catharsis. Sometimes in life you realize that you have lost the rudder and your polar star, and this implies that anyone who brought you around you should pay the consequences, “Cooper revealed a Vanity Fair America.

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Cooper, who recently appeared in the role of the father of Superman in the last film by James Gunn, began to caress the idea of ​​becoming a director at the time of Limitless, achieving his goal first in 2018 with A Star Is Born, Previewed at the Venice Film Festival together with Lady Gaga – The film obtained the beauty of eight Oscar nominations by winning the statuette for the best song – and then in 2023 with Masterin which he turned into the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. The film, welcoming in an ambivalent way by critics, remained dry mouth from the prizes season, and it is also why finding out what the next move of the Bradley Cooper director will be even more interesting.