Their music didn't become popular for 30 years, by which time they are played by Casey Affleck and Walton Goggins. Unlike the Beach Boys, though, they never hit the big time.

Pohlad's directorial follow-up is another unconventional rock'n'roll biopic with a similar back-and-forth structure and casting technique: Noah Jupe and Jack Dylan Grazer play the teenage Don and Joe Emerson, who record an album on their family farm in 1979. The relationships were real and there was always a sort of emotional reality all the way through.'īill Pohlad's Love & Mercy told the bittersweet story of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, with Paul Dano as the young Brian, and John Cusack as his middle-aged self. 'She has emotions, she finds things difficult. (Yes, really: the device is called the Heart, the heroine is called Stone, and the film is called Heart of Stone.) 'The thing that Gal and Skydance spoke about a lot was they wanted Rachel to be a character that wasn't just a female actress playing a sort of male character, but a woman at the heart of it who was responding differently,' the film's director, Tom Harper, told Sydney Bucksbaum at EW, going on to describe how the character's humanity was central to the film. Intended as the first film in a franchise, Heart of Stone features Gadot as Rachel Stone, a spy who must stop a powerful device, the Heart, from falling into enemy hands. Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) wants to change that. There is no shortage of spectacular action movies about globe-trotting secret agents, but, even now, almost all of those secret agents are men.

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