Public television is always ripe for parody and happens to be a world Wilson knows.
His father Robert Wilson helped launch, and ran, Dallas PBS station KERA.
(He also introducedMonty Pythons Flying Circusto public television.)
Owen Wilson in ‘Paint’IFC Films
Id be like, Who is this guy?
Ross show ran from 1983 to 1994.
He passed away from cancer the following year.
McAdams wrote the script in 2010.
Bob Ross was not part of the zeitgeist when I wrote it.
Id say to people, Do you remember there was this guy named Bob Ross?
Its a little like him.
And theyd be like, Oh, yeah.
It follows a crew of young activists from very different backgrounds on a daring mission of sabotage.
Its the debut for emerging female cinematographer Tehillah de Castro.
They worked with experts and engineers to build and then blow up the pipeline in the film.
Neon acquired the film in a competitive situation after its world premiere as part of TIFFs 2022 Platform category.
