He’s also written, directed and starred in films including Anesthesia and Leaves of Grass, appearing on the TV side in Watchmen, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Wormwood, Black Dynamite and more. Notable credits include Just Mercy, The Report, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Fantastic Four, Kill the Messenger, Lincoln, The Incredible Hulk, Syriana, Minority Report, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Hamlet, The Thin Red Line and Donnie Brasco. Over the last 30-plus years, Nelson has appeared in more than 80 features. He will next appear in Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley and the STX sports drama National Champions, as well as Del Toro’s stop-motion animated feature Pinocchio and his upcoming Netflix anthology series, Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight. Tim Blake Nelson is an actor, playwright and filmmaker who recently drew some of the best reviews of his career with his turn in Ponciroli’s Shout! Factory Western, Old Henry. At Oberlin, he formed and runs Probable Voltages, a music and production label/collective, which has produced numerous albums, shorts, and music videos. Henry Nelson is a fifth-year student at the Oberlin Conservatory pursuing degrees in Classical Composition and Jazz Composition. “We are very excited to jump into another project with Tim,” added Houchins, “and being a part of Henry’s directorial debut makes it especially gratifying.” “It makes it even better to work again with Shannon and Potsy after their extraordinary accomplishment with Old Henry.” We’ve been talking about collaborating since he was twelve years old, and this feels like a perfect way to begin,” said Tim Blake Nelson. “Henry has written a story about the relationship between the ideals of a liberal arts college and the realities of the poverty and isolation that surround it that I’ve never seen addressed before. The film is scheduled to enter production in Oberlin, Ohio in late January. You would imagine that you had the wrong script.The elder Nelson will produce alongside Shannon Houchins ( Old Henry) of Hideout Pictures and Vince Jolivette ( Zola), with Old Henry’s writer-director Potsy Ponciroli on board to exec produce. If you were to read the "Thin Red Line" script and use it to try and follow the movie you would be utterly lost. And so what that role became for me and what that experience became for me was about watching Terry and learning from Terry because he has an utterly unique approach to how to make a movie in which the script is really something that's handed into the studio to get them to agree to give him the money to then go and make a movie which is really going to be written as he makes it, rather than using the script as a clear blueprint for what the movie will be. So because I had just directed my first film and was eager to direct my next one I just decided that I needed to leave my actor's ego at the door and try my best to embrace the experience as a film school. So you really never knew when you were going to be on set or when you were going to have a day off, when you were going to be on camera when you were going to be in the furthest reaches of the background. It became obvious early on that Terry had really brought a group of us over there to pull from and improvise on a daily basis what his movie was going to be. So many of us in that movie ended up barely being in the movie even though we spent five and a half months in Australia with Terrence Malick.
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