{"id":59482,"date":"2018-05-11T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sony-to-release-gary-hart-drama-starring-hugh-jackman\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:24:53","slug":"sony-to-release-gary-hart-drama-starring-hugh-jackman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sony-to-release-gary-hart-drama-starring-hugh-jackman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to release Gary Hart drama starring Hugh Jackman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=002a3815-c9eb-438f-b553-bd454dbe17d8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1408\" alt=\"Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart withdraws from the presidential race on in Denver on May 8, 1987, left, and actor Hugh Jackman at the AACTA International Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2018. Jackman will portray Hart in \u201cThe Front Runner,\u201d about Hart\u2019s 1988 Presidential bid. Sony Pictures, who acquired the worldwide distribution rights, say they will release the film in the fall to coincide with both awards season and the election.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart withdraws from the presidential race on in Denver on May 8, 1987, left, and actor Hugh Jackman at the AACTA International Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2018. Jackman will portray Hart in \u201cThe Front Runner,\u201d about Hart\u2019s 1988 Presidential bid. Sony Pictures, who acquired the worldwide distribution rights, say they will release the film in the fall to coincide with both awards season and the election.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hugh Jackman is starring as Hart in the film from director Jason Reitman. The film will chronicle the politician\u2019s rise and fall as an extramarital affair with a woman named Donna Rice became tabloid fodder and a national scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Reitman says he can\u2019t wait for audiences to see Jackman\u2019s transformation into the complex figure. Reitman calls Jackman\u2019s performance \u201chumanist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The screenplay is based on journalist Matt Bai\u2019s 2014 book \u201cAll the Truth is Out.\u201d It was co-written by Reitman, Bai and former Hillary Clinton press secretary Jay Carson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart withdraws from the presidential race on in Denver on May 8, 1987, left, and actor Hugh Jackman at the AACTA International Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2018. Jackman will portray Hart in \u201cThe Front Runner,\u201d about Hart\u2019s 1988 Presidential bid. Sony Pictures, who acquired the worldwide distribution rights, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-59482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59482"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=59482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}