Hey, remember Bradley Cooper? You know, the dude who went from a bit part in Wedding Crashers to being a part of the Hangover ensemble to nearly winning a Best Actor Oscar (twice, in fact) within a decade? It’s okay if you haven’t — aside from a bit part in this year’s Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (really!), the dude has been pretty quiet for the last few years. Understandable, we think, given that he unleashed “Shallow” on to the world with Lady Gaga for his directorial debut, A Star is Born. But in the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “you can’t keep a good man down.” Hence, the teaser trailer for Maestro, a biopic about Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, which Cooper’s been working on for the last few years. Dude took that Netflix money and ran — just look at this fucking thing.
Peep it:
Here’s Deadline doing the synopsis work that Netflix won’t:
“Billed as an emotionally epic examination of family and love, ‘Maestro’ tells the complex love story of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan) — a story that spans over 30 years. Perhaps best known for his score to Broadway’s ‘West Side Story’ and the classic Marlon Brando film ‘On the Waterfront,’ Bernstein married the actress in 1951 and went on to share three children with her, with the couple splitting their time between New York and Connecticut. Complicating the dynamic between the duo were the affairs he had over the years, with both men and women, even as they were conducted with Felicia’s consenting awareness. The pair were separated at one point for a period of a year, though they ultimately stayed together until Felicia’s death in 1978.”
Reminder: History doesn’t come with a spoiler alert. Anyhow, after it premieres at Venice next month, Maestro will hit select theaters on November 22 before it becomes available to anybody with a Netflix subscription on December 20. And just to add to our amusement to all of this, we happened to read Tom Wolfe’s “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s” recently, and you bet we’re reading that title in the way that Wolfe writes it. Egreggggggggggio maestro!