In yet another season of big-scale awards contenders and franchise-perpetuating blockbusters, a new Warren Beatty movie — nay, a new Warren Beatty movie that’s a Howard Hughes-centered romantic comedy — might be just the thing we need. (Or one of 25 things we need.) To their credit, Fox have pushed the movie a fair amount, and we now have a third trailer in almost as many months.
I’ll abstain from watching this, just as I’ve abstained from viewing the other two, both because I’d rather just see the thing as it unfolds and, with some regard to my desire to see it, it feels strange to get bite-sized versions of a movie that Beatty’s (apparently) been hoping to make since 1973. One month is not really such a wait, I’d think.
If you’d like, however, see the preview below:
An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire (Warren Beatty), who they work for.
It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Alden Ehrenreich, Lily Collins, Haley Bennett, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Annette Bening, Lousie Linton, and Oliver Platt also star in Rules Don’t Apply, which opens on November 23.