Ethan Hawke had to wait about a decade to begin filming his latest role. Blue Moon stars Hawke as a fictionalized version of Lorenz Hart, the brilliant lyricist who worked alongside composer Richard Rodgers before Rodgers teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein II. In this less well-known partnership, Rodgers and Hart wrote Great American Songbook standards like “My Funny Valentine,” “Manhattan” and the titular “Blue Moon.” And the film itself is the latest outgrowth of another long-running creative partnership—between Hawke and director Richard Linklater. Opening nationwide October 24, Blue Moon marks their ninth feature-length collaboration and the first since 2014’s Boyhood . Despite the lengthy layover, “We’ve been talking about making this movie that whole time,” Hawke says.  

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