Live Read

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Live Read
Show typeStaged Reading
LocationBing Theater, LACMA
Los Angeles, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Creative team
Creator Jason Reitman
Director Jason Reitman (2011-2016, 2018)
Guest directors (2013-present)
Host Elvis Mitchell (2011-2019)
Rachel Bleemer (2019-present)
Official website

Live Read is a monthly live staged reading of a film script and a part of the Film Independent at LACMA film series at the Bing Theater directed by Jason Reitman and hosted by Elvis Mitchell from 2011 to 2016. In 2019, Film Independent brought the series back as part of Film Independent Presents... at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, produced by director of programming and events, Rachel Bleemer. A guest director reads the stage directions in the scripts while images from the film would be projected behind the cast. The script is typically announced days before the event and while some actors were announced beforehand, full cast lists and the role each actor would play were kept secret until the event itself. The actors do not rehearse ahead of time.

Contents

The readings are one-night-only and are not recorded due to rights issues. Because of this, tickets for the 500 seats, go on pre-sale to members of Film Independent one week ahead of the general public, and sell out almost immediately.

The series is to show audiences how actors create characters. [1] [2]

Readings

Jason Reitman directs and reads the stage directions unless otherwise noted. Many of the actors play multiple supporting roles. Specific roles are stated only when information is known.

2011

October (The Breakfast Club)

The Breakfast Club by John Hughes [3]

Cast

November (The Apartment)

The Apartment by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond [4]

Cast

December (The Princess Bride)

The Princess Bride by William Goldman, based on the novel by Goldman [6]

Cast

2012

January (Shampoo)

Shampoo by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty [7] [8]

Cast

February (Reservoir Dogs)

Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino. [9] [10] [11] [12] Reitman assembled an all-black cast to play roles originally played on screen by white actors.

Cast

March (The Big Lebowski)

The Big Lebowski by the Coen brothers. [13] [14] Due to the huge turnout, speakers were set up outside to allow those without tickets limited access to the proceedings. [15]

Cast

April (The Apartment)

The Apartment by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond at The New York Times Center. This was the first of the Live Read series to take place outside of Los Angeles [16]

Cast

September (American Beauty)

American Beauty by Alan Ball at the Toronto International Film Festival. [17] [18] [19]

Cast

Woody Harrelson was originally slated to play Colonel Fitts while Nick Kroll would play Buddy Kane, [18] but when Harrelson was stuck in Hawaii, Kroll played Fitts and Paul Scheer played Kane. [19]

October (Bull Durham)

Bull Durham by Ron Shelton

Cast

November (Manhattan)

Manhattan by Woody Allen [20] [21] [22]

Cast

December (Ghostbusters)

Ghostbusters by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. [23] [24] Jason Reitman's father Ivan Reitman directed the original film.

Cast

2013

January (His Girl Friday)

His Girl Friday by Charles Lederer, based on the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur [25]

Guest director: Fred Savage

Cast

February (Glengarry Glen Ross)

Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, based on the play by Mamet. [26] [27] [28] Reitman assembled a cast of women to read the all-male script.

Cast

March (The Usual Suspects)

The Usual Suspects by Christopher McQuarrie [29]

Cast

July (Breaking Bad's pilot episode)

The pilot of Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan. [30] This was the first television episode performed at the readings.

Cast

September (Boogie Nights)

Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson at the Toronto International Film Festival [31]

Cast

October (Boogie Nights)

Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson [32] [33] [34]

Cast

November (Tootsie)

Tootsie by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal [35] [36]

Guest director: David Wain

Cast

December (Raising Arizona)

Raising Arizona by the Coen brothers [37]

Guest director: Patton Oswalt

Cast

2014

January (American Pie)

American Pie by Adam Herz. Reitman gender-swapped the cast, with women playing the male roles and men playing the female roles.

Cast

February (Pulp Fiction)

Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino [38] [39]

Guest director: Evan Goldberg

Cast

March (Groundhog Day)

Groundhog Day by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis. Reitman chose this reading as a tribute to Harold Ramis, who died the previous month. He also chose an earlier draft of the screenplay rather than the final shooting script. [40]

Cast

April

The Graduate

April 17: The Graduate by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. Based on the novel by Charles Webb. [41]

Cast
The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight Live Reading at the Ace Hotel Los Angeles, as part of LACMA's Live Read series on April 19, 2014. LACMA The Hateful Eight Live Reading.jpg
The Hateful Eight Live Reading at the Ace Hotel Los Angeles, as part of LACMA's Live Read series on April 19, 2014.

April 19, special event: The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tarantino at the United Artists Theater at the Ace Hotel Los Angeles. Unusually for the series, this script had not been filmed prior to the reading. After a script leak in January, Tarantino considered dropping the film, but decided to hold a reading of the first draft of this script. [42] [43] [44]

Guest director: Quentin Tarantino

Cast

October (American Beauty)

American Beauty by Alan Ball. All cast members starred in Jason Reitman's 2014 film Men, Women & Children . [45]

Cast

November (Diner)

Diner by Barry Levinson. All cast members have appeared in a lead or recurring role in the FX show The League .

Cast

December (The Empire Strikes Back)

The Empire Strikes Back by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas. [46]

Cast

2015

January (Goodfellas)

Goodfellas by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese. Based on Wiseguy by Pileggi.

Cast

February (Sideways)

Sideways by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. Based on the novel by Rex Pickett. [47]

Cast

March (Dazed and Confused)

Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater. Most actors except Travis Tope also played various freshmen. [48] [49]

Cast

April (Major League)

Major League by David S. Ward

Guest director: Joe Manganiello. In a departure from Live Read tradition, Manganiello did not read the stage directions, but instead played a character. He cast sportscaster Rich Eisen as the narrator. [50]

Cast

May ("The Wheel" from Mad Men)

The first-season finale of Mad Men , "The Wheel" by Matthew Weiner and Robin Veith. The reading was held on the same day as the premiere of the series finale and was followed by a screening of that episode. [51] [52]

Cast

June (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe based on book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story by Crowe at the Los Angeles Film Festival [53] [54]

Guest director: Eli Roth

Cast

July (The Big Lebowski)

The Big Lebowski by the Coen brothers at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal [55] [56]

Cast

Fassbender, Lawrence, and Munn would all appear in X-Men: Apocalypse . Miller and Starr appear on the series Silicon Valley , created by Judge.

September (The Princess Bride)

The Princess Bride by William Goldman, based on the novel by Goldman at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [57] [58] [59]

Cast

Gael Garcia Bernal was late for the show due to a delayed flight, so Catherine Reitman filled in until he arrived. [60]

October (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes

November (Network)

Network by Paddy Chayefsky

Guest director: Scott Sternberg

December (True Romance)

True Romance by Quentin Tarantino

2016

January (Dr. Strangelove)

Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George. Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George.

Guest director: Mark Romanek

February (The Maltese Falcon)

The Maltese Falcon by John Huston. Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett.

Guest director: Laurence Fishburne. [65] LACMA curator and event host Elvis Mitchell read the stage directions.

March (Stand by Me)

Stand by Me by Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon. Based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. [67] Like the Glengarry Glen Ross reading, the all-male script was read by all women.

April (Thank You For Smoking)

Thank You for Smoking by Jason Reitman. Based on the novel by Christopher Buckley. For the first time, Reitman staged a performance of one of his own scripts.

Reitman announced that this reading would be the last of the series. [70]

2018

December (Casablanca)

For the first time since April 2016, Reitman directed another live read, featuring an all-female cast, of Casablanca , by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch. The reading was sponsored by Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.

2019

March (My Dinner With Andre)

Film Independent Presents, the producers of the Live Read series, resumed again with (what was supposed to be) My Dinner With Andre by Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn with comedy stars Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Hosted by Elvis Mitchell, the evening veered into a comedy put-on by Kroll and Mulaney, as the reading was staged with Michael Keaton and Paula Pell doing the main roles from the original script, heavily interrupted by Kroll and Mulaney's Oh, Hello characters Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, respectively. [72]

June (When Harry Met Sally...)

When Harry Met Sally... by Nora Ephron.

Guest director: Randall Park. Park assembled a cast entirely of Asian-American actors. Film Independent curator and event host Elvis Mitchell read the stage directions.

This was Elvis Mitchell’s final night at the helm of Film Independent's signature screening series, which would continue under the purview of director of events Rachel Bleemer.

October (Singles)

Singles by Cameron Crowe.

Guest director: James Ponsoldt. Ponsoldt read the stage directions and acted as the host encouraging the audience to "wear their flannel."

A nice treat leading into evening's main event was an email from Crowe, which Ponsoldt read to the audience. "The movie came from a special time in my life," Crowe said. "I'd fallen in love with Seattle, and so many of the soulful members of the community." He went on to acknowledge the late Soundgarden frontman, who has a cameo in the film, saying: "Love live Chris Cornell!"

2020

February (Breaking Away)

Breaking Away by Steve Tesich

Guest directors: Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, the creative team behind The Climb .

A live string quartet provided musical accompaniment.

[74]

March (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman from a story by Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth

Guest director: Brett Haley

2021

January (Bringing Up Baby)

Bringing Up Baby by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a story by Wilde

Guest director: Paul Feig

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Film Independent Presents hosted their first virtual live read event.

November

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman Jr.

Guest director: Marlee Matlin

L.A. Story

L.A. Story by Steve Martin

Guest director: Marvin Lemus

2023

February (Triangle of Sadness)

Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund

Guest director: Ruben Östlund

April (Jennifer's Body)

Jennifer's Body by Diablo Cody

Guest director: Karyn Kusama

June (Back to the Future)

Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale

Guest director: Ben Schwartz

Stage directions were read by Scott Aukerman.

2024

February (Anatomy of a Fall)

Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet

Guest director: Justine Triet

Stage directions were read by Franklin Leonard

June

Wayne's World

Wayne's World by Mike Myers, Bonnie and Terry Turner

Guest director: Zoe Lister-Jones

A special appearance was made by Tia Carrere who played Cassandra in the original film. Music from the film was performed by Miya Folick, featuring Amelia Randall Meath (Sylvan Esso) and Claud.

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite by Jared and Jerusha Hess

Guest director: Natalie Morales

Trivia

Other events

On March 23, 2014, Jensen Karp assembled a cast to read Space Jam by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles. [75] The event was in many ways a parody of Reitman's series. While the scripts Reitman chooses are from well-received and occasionally Academy Award-winning films, Space Jam is a children's film that received, at best, mixed reviews. In addition, LACMA's Bing Theater is a large auditorium, while the UCB Theatre is a small comedy club. The cast included:

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