Cooper joined the cast and agreed a deal to direct the film in March 2015. Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and Tom Cruise had been in talks to play the male lead role.īy October 2012, Beyoncé had dropped out, and Johnny Depp had also rejected the movie. Wasn't Beyoncé meant to star in this film?īack in 2011, Clint Eastwood was in talks to direct the film, starring Beyoncé, but the project was delayed to the singer's pregnancy. It is based on a screenplay by Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth, Irene Mecchi, Stephen J Revele and Christopher Wilkinson. It will also mark Cooper's directorial debut, and he will also co-produce alongside Clint Eastwood and various others. There will also be roles for Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, and singer Halsey. Lady Gaga will star as rising singer Ally, alongside Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine. I wanted to explore the realities of loving another human being, and what that demands.
"We're also dealing with the idea of abandonment - when you put too much stock in a relationship and not in your own worth - how that affects your ability to fully be there for someone else, and for yourself. "What happens when you're 30 and you you might not make it? And what happens when the idea that maybe you're not going to make it creeps into your artistic brain, but then you meet somebody who inspires you to run away from that idea and embrace what it is that moves you. She's not an ingénue she's not this innocent person. "I was also very interested in the character of Ally being a bit different than the other versions. " what unconditional love is, how hard it is to love someone in this world as a human being, and what that demands: those are the things I was interested in," Cooper told Entertainment Weekly last year. Viewers also fell in love with an original song from the movie, "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)," not unlike the "Shallow" mania that seemed to captivate the country for months this past year.Similar to previous versions, the remake will follow country music star Jackson Maine ( Bradley Cooper), who discovers an unknown but talented singer named Ally (Lady Gaga).Īs her career quickly takes off, Jackson starts to realize that his best days may be behind him. But that didn't stop it from becoming popular with audiences: it was a huge box-office hit.
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While all other iterations of the movie achieved critical success, the 1976 A Star Is Born received negative-to-mixed reviews. In the 1976 version, she calls herself "Esther Hoffman Howard," taking only the last name from her late husband John Norman Howard. For instance, in the first two movies the grieving wife declares that she will go by "Mrs. There are also a few more subtle departures, informed by changing politics and gender norms. It also features big-name musician Barbra Streisand as its ingenue. It shifts the story's setting from Hollywood to the music industry, and has an aging rock star as its male lead.
The third movie has the most in common with this past year's remake. Below, all four A Star Is Born movies, and how they stack up. As it’s critiquing itself, it’s also shoring up the audience’s fascination with how it works."īut with this year's remake up for a stunning eight Academy Awards-including Best Picture, and Lady Gaga for Best Actress-there's a value in examining each version, and how the story has evolved from 1937 to today. As though the point of view of the movie is with the audience, being like, ‘Look at this horrible place, and what it does to humanity.’ But really that movie is obviously also a product of Hollywood. Hollywood makes these movies, like A Star Is Born, that are supposedly self-critical, as though they’re being made by somebody outside of Hollywood. "It’s Hollywood’s favorite structured myth about itself. Why keep reprising the same narrative? "Hollywood people buy into this mythology that there’s only so much space in the universe of stars, and for one to ascend, one has to fall," Karina Longworth, author of the forthcoming Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, told Vanity Fair. A successful man discovers and uplifts a young ingenue, only to be eclipsed by her success and fall prey to his own demons: that is the central, immutable story of all four iterations of A Star Is Born, though details shift, adapting to each distinct era.