Owen Teague, Everett Blunck & Director Nicholas Colia Talk Their Tribeca Comedy Griffin In Summer
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Griffin in Summer is a new coming-of-age comedy debuting at Tribeca Film Festival 2024. Led by first-time feature film director Nicholas Colia, the movie tells the story of a young boy, Griffin, who elects to spend his summer putting together a dramatic play. While the precocious 14-year-old writes his opus, he meets Brad, a handyman, who captures his attention and changes his play—and his life.
Nicholas Colia Reveals His Inspirations For Griffin In Summer Screen Rant: Nicholas, where did this come from in terms of your life? How much of Griffin's story was your experience? I had thought, "Well, maybe it's a neighbor boy," or for a while it was maybe going to be Griffin's sister's boyfriend, and then I just made him the handyman again. It was the easiest way to just get him in the house. But I learned a lot from that short, especially working with kids, although that kid was a nine-year-old. A fourteen-year-old is different.
The only movie that I thought about a little bit is Bugsy Malone. It's a movie from the ‘70s that's a 1920s gangster movie, but everybody in it is 13. It’s Jodie Foster and Ralph Macchio, and the bartenders are 13 and the cab drivers are 13. I had always thought it'd be funny to do a Marriage Story-type film, but where everybody's 13 and take it really seriously. The Regrets of Autumn Show is kind of my version of that, of doing an adult dramatic play but everybody’s just 13.
Nicholas Colia: Meredith Tucker and Betsy Fippinger, the casting directors, saw over 400 kids for Griffin. Ultimately, by the end of the shoot, it got to the point with Everett where if Everett was like, "I don't know about this line,” or, “This line feels a little bit weird," I'd be like, "We should just cut it." At that point he was so in the character and it was so much a part of him that I was like, "Well, I trust his instincts more than mine.
Everett: I honestly feel the same. It was so awesome. Everyone was just so welcoming. I was so nervous the first day—I had never led a film before—but 15 minutes in, I was like, "Okay, this is home." Then, I watched a lot of Marlon Brando and James Dean , and movies that I can imagine Brad having watched for school or seen when he was younger and taking completely the wrong meanings from. Seeing those kinds of characters in Streetcar and being like, “Oh yeah, I want to be like that.” The physicality is—as you probably know, because I'm an ape—is always a good place to start and find your way in. The voice, too.
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