![]() When: Premieres for general audiences Friday, March 11.Where: Marquee Cinemas - Orchard 14, 20 Ellinwood Drive, New Hartford, NY 13413."This is the kind of picture that should be on the big screen and shared," he said. It's a story that speaks for me."įilming for "Tyson's Run" started about three years ago in Atlanta, Georgia, but it was held back by more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.īass said he didn't want to release the film on streaming sites - that it was important viewers had that same sort of experience he first had as a child in Utica. I like all kinds of stories," he said, later adding. He was brought on as a writer for the sketch comedy series "In Living Color," and went on to create the sitcoms "Sister, Sister" and "Kenan and Kel."īass said there wasn't much of a transition from comedic television writing to a more dramatic film like "Tyson's Run." "It's about faith, it's about love, it's about forgiveness."īass may be best known for his contributions to 1990s comedy television. After a stint acting overseas (including filming in Hong Kong for Jackie Chan's 1985 movie "The Protector") and screenwriting in Hollywood, Bass got into the Warner Brothers Writers' Workshop, he said. "This is just an ordinary family," he said. "He was cast based on having done an unbelievably great job," he said.īass said that, while the story centers on a character with autism, the themes are universal, and it didn't change how he wrote the challenges the family faces. ![]() The cast includes Amy Smart ("The Butterfly Effect," "Just Friends") and Rory Cochrane ("Argo," "CSI Miami") as Tyson's parents, Barkhad Abdi ("Captain Phillips," "Blade Runner 2049") as his mentor, Claudia Zevallos as his Spanish teacher, Layla Felder as a girl who befriends him, Reno Wilson as the city mayor, and Major Dodson ("The Walking Dead," "American Horror Story") starring as Tyson.ĭodson himself is autistic, and has advocated for autistic characters being played by autistic actors. But Bass said he didn't know Dodson had autism when he was chosen. ![]() ![]() "Thinking if he becomes some kind of champion of something, his mother and father will have a better relationship and his family will be healed," Bass said, later adding, "He thinks that's the way to communicate with his father." Out of that grew an idea for a film about a 15-year-old boy with autism, Tyson, who becomes inspired to run a marathon after attending public school for the first time, where his father is the football coach. ![]()
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