Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have just brought online the trailer for Academy Award-nominated producer-turned-director Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy, starring Paul Dano as The Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson.
Scripted by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner and also starring John Cusack, Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Banks, Love & Mercy aims to present an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson’s music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
“I am thrilled that Paul Dano has signed on to play me during one of my most creative explosions and most fulfilling musical times in my career,” Wilson said in a statement when the film was first announced back in 2013. “I still can’t believe how cool it is that my life will be portrayed on the big screen and to have Bill Pohlad as the captain of the Sloop John B is amazing! It just makes me feel so humble. I can’t wait to see it with a full tub of buttered popcorn.”
John Wells and Claire Rudnick Polstein (John Wells Productions) are producing alongside Pohlad through his River Road Entertainment.
