But then, they open their mouths and the spell is broken. "Give me a day," he says, "and you'll fall in love with me."Įasy for the easy-on-the-eyes Melton to say! Shahidi and Melton both possess an otherworldly kind of beauty, and combined with Russo-Young's lush, rhythmic cinematic style, you could just watch them bop around the city for hours, all shiny hair and plush lips. First he saves her from a speeding BMW in Chinatown, then persuades the science-driven Natasha to spend some time doing the "36 Questions" love study from the New York Times. Daniel is a poet, a dreamer and believer in destiny, and he takes off after her. She's spotted in Grand Central Station by Daniel "Riverdale" star Charles Melton), who notices she's staring at the starry ceiling, and he interprets her "Deus Ex Machina" jacket as a sign. The day before her family is set to be deported back to Jamaica, she makes a last-ditch attempt to change their fate by pleading their case to an immigration lawyer. Yara Shahidi (of "black-ish" and "grown-ish") stars as Natasha, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants but a New Yorker through and through. But the stakes are high and the clock is ticking - on a mandatory deportation from the United States. And in the structural sense, "The Sun is Also a Star" is also a sick teen movie - without sickness. The sick teen genre is a well of deep potential with its heightened stakes and ticking clock. Her first, "Everything, Everything," also went on to success as a movie adaptation, starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson in a swoony take on a Bubble Boy story. The film is the feature adaptation of Nicola Yoon's second novel. She creates a heady, knee-buckling mood that nearly conceals the weaknesses in story and performances. In "The Sun is Also a Star," Russo-Young swirls together sun-dappled selfies, luscious skin, urban grittiness and hip-hop beats, the aesthetics perfectly matched to emotion. Director Ry Russo-Young excels at rendering those emotions with a singular sense of artfulness. It seems its big, sweeping emotions are somehow the only things that can match the high-stakes, hormone-enhanced teenage feelings. acquired the rights to this novel after Everything, Everything made six times its budget at the box office.Teenagers need melodrama. That book was developed into a movie directed by Stella Meghie starring Amandla Stenberg. The Sun Is Also a Star is the second book from Everything, Everything author Nicola Yoon to be developed into a film. Pictures and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures. The film is from Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros. She’s also executive producing this film. Russo-Young is directing from a script by Tracy Oliver, the co-writer of Girls Trip, who is also helming BET’s First Wives Club series reboot. A modern-day story about finding love against all the odds, The Sun Is Also a Star explores whether our lives are determined by fate or the random events of the universe. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. The official description reads: College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet-and fall for each other-over one magical day amid the fervor and flurry of New York City. Riverdale star Charles Melton, Jake Choi, Camrus Johnson, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Miriam A. The film, which stars Yara Shahidi, hits theaters on May 17, 2019. released the first trailer for The Sun is Also a Star.
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