I hate to say Cannes is desperate but this really isn’t good.
They’re going to give a premiere for a John Travolta-directed movie which is going to Apple TV on May 29th.
Doesn’t this break the rule that no streaming films can debut at Cannes?
The movie is called “Propeller One-Way Night Coach,” and it’s based on a book that Travolta apparently wrote in 1997. It will be shown in the Cannes Premiere section, not the main competition. In the cast is Travolta’s daughter Ella Bleu.
Is there a Scientology aspect? Probably. Two of the cast members seem to come from Scientology families. The kid who plays Travolta has the same last name as a photographer who took pictures of ex-Scientologist Leah Remini. His mother is played by someone whose last name is in the Scientology files. They aren’t common last names, either
No producer credits yet, but that will unravel with time.
Travolta has only appeared in a string of terrible movies for the last 30 years. They include the really miserable, “Gotti,” which was also shown in Cannes before it was encased in cement and sent to the bottom of the river. Maybe he can surprise us, though.
For Cannes, this is scraping the bottom.
