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Casey Affleck stars in the first trailer of Dreamin’ Wild, Roadside Flix’s next film that mixes music, family and history in the adaptation of the true story behind Donnie and Joe Emerson, a legendary musical duo that was highly underrated during the 70s but has become extremely popular in the last couple of years.
Dreamin’ Wild had its premiere back in September 2022 at the 79th Venice Film Festival, and now it’s ready to hit the screen and bring Emerson’s music to an even wider audience.
Academy Award winner Casey Affleck plays Donnie while The Righteous Gemstones’ Walton Goggins plays his brother Joe, joined by New Girl’s Zooey Deschannel as Nancy, Based on a True Story’s Chris Messina as Matt Sullivan, three-time Emmy winner Beau Bridges as Don Emerson Sr., Shazam! Fury of the Gods‘ Jack Dylan Grazer, and Noah Jupe, star of the A Quiet Place franchise.
As the official synopsis reads: “Dreamin’ Wild is about what happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece. While the album’s rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried emotions as Donnie, his wife Nancy, brother Joe, and father Don Sr. come to terms with the past and their newly found fame.”
Here’s the trailer for the film, coming to theaters on August 4th:
Dreamin’ Wild is helmed by Bill Pohlad, director of 2014’s Love & Mercy, and producer of many box-office hits and highly acclaimed movies like Brokeback Mountain and 12 Years a Slave.
Who Are Donnie and Joe Emerson?
Raised on a farm in Fruitland, Washington, Joe and Donnie showed some pretty interesting musical skills that didn’t go unnoticed by their father, Donnie Sr. With $100.000 dollars he built them a more than fine home studio where they recorded and produced their own album, Dreamin’ Wild, released under their own label Enterprise & Co.
Unfortunately, it didn’t have any commercial success since no famous company was behind it. Years later, in 2008, music collector Jack Fleischer found the album on an old record store and started talking to people about how good it was, with the song Baby becoming a major hit in the world of underground music fans, turning the Emerson’s music into an unexpected hit after years of no one even hearing about them.
In 2012, another label re-released the album, and in 2014 Joe and Donnie released Still Dreamin’ Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979–81, which featured songs they wrote and recorded back then in the family farm but didn’t make it to the first album.
After the first release of Dreamin’ Wild and its evident failure, Donnie still tried to make it into the music industry and recorded two other albums: Can I See You, which never saw the light, and Whatever It Takes which was launched by an independent label.
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