Sony has delayed A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, directed by After Yang’s Kogonada and starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell.
The absence of marketing for Sony’s upcoming mysterious film, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, has had plenty of folks suggesting for a while that the film would be delayed. A no-prize reward goes to to them, then, as that has proven to be the case. Directed by Kogonada (After Yang) the film’s an intriguing oddity: the kind of expensive, movie star-driven project that we continue to be thankful to Sony for supporting.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey was originally set to appear in cinemas a week after Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*, but Sony appears to have backed off from that counter-programming strategy. It’s a tactic that paid off handsomely for the studio when it released It Ends With Us hot on the heels of Deadpool & Wolverine last summer, but that was before Marvel unveiled its secret weapon: Florence Pugh.
Perhaps Pugh’s recent comments about the next Marvel Cinematic Universe film being ‘an A24 movie that kicks ass’ have given Sony pause for thought, with the studio now wondering if it’s going head-to-head with an MCU version of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, Civil War and Hereditary all rolled into one. Only with quips, punching and pointless post-credit sequences.
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We jest, of course. But as well as coming the weekend after Thunderbolts*, the previous release date would have seen it compete against an actual A24 release: Friendship, starring Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson.
The lack of marketing for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey indicates that this decision was made some time ago and is only now being made public (thanks, The Hollywood Reporter).
Originally due in May, we’ll now have to wait until September to see what the After Yang director has cooked up with his formidable leading duo of Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell. The script has been penned by Seth Reiss, the writer of 2022’s The Menu, the delicious 2022 satirical drama.
As for the film itself, things have been steeped in a fair amount of secrecy. As of right now we only have this rather vague logline that promises a focus ‘on two strangers and the unlikely way that their paths align.’ So every movie ever made, then? (We’re still tremendously excited for this one though.)
More as it comes in.
