Skip to Content

Me and Orson Welles – Trailer

me-and-orson-welles-poster

Poster artwork © Freestyle Releasing

Here is the trailer for Me and Orson Welles which is opening next week in time for Thanksgiving. Our LA reporter Judy Sloane will be bringing us interviews with the stars over the next few days.

Press Release:


Based in real theatrical history, Me and Orson Welles is a comedic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937.

The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic-but-sometimes-cruel Welles (impressive newcomer Christian McKay) staking his career on this risky production while Richard (Zac Efron) mixes with everyone from starlets to stagehands in behind-the-scenes adventures bound to change him.

Claire Danes co-stars as Sonja Jones, the unapologetically ambitious assistant to Welles whom Richard tries to woo. Ben Chaplin plays Mercury Theater regular George Coulouris. Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly and James Tupper are among the talented ensemble cast. The fast-moving screenplay by Holly Gent Palmo and Vince Palmo is based on Robert Kaplow’s meticulously researched novel of the same name. Oscar®-nominated director Richard Linklater is at the helm.

USA Release November 25, 2009

Related articles

  • November 27, 2009 -- Me and Orson Welles – Image Gallery
    Based in real theatrical history, this is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’...
  • November 26, 2009 -- Me and Orson Welles – Christian McKay
    Where on earth do you find an actor to play the famous larger-than-life actor/director Welles? As Director Richard Linklater says ‘the f...
  • November 25, 2009 -- Me and Orson Welles – Claire Danes
    Claire Danes has performed on stage, screen and television. She first came to the attention of the audience when she starred on the TV serie...
  • November 24, 2009 -- Me and Orson Welles – Zac Efron
    After a slew of successful movies including Hairspray and High School Musical 2, Zac Efron could sit back and wait for the musical scripts t...
  • November 23, 2009 -- Me and Orson Welles – Director Richard Linklater
    Director/Producer Richard Linklater brings the audience a new and refreshing view of the legendary actor/ writer/ director/ producer. Based ...

No Responses to “Me and Orson Welles – Trailer” Leave a reply ›

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment

About Film Review Online

We cover all aspects of the Film world.

Our journalists are on set and at the press conferences to bring you interviews conducted with the stars, writers and directors. We are also at the press screenings to bring you reviews as the films are released.

As time has gone by technology has brought up the quality of television. We are therefore covering TV movies and shows side by side with the films intended for theatrical release.

Your find trailers, clips and exclusive video on the site. Your also find photo galleries, press releases and release/air dates.

The time we display is New York time.

Privacy Statement

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site.

These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you.

These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.

To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org