Miles Teller is staying in the Navy — maybe because he’s got nowhere else to go.
Deadline reports that the “Top Gun: Maverick” star is set to star in a modern retelling of “An Officer and a Gentleman,” the 1982 romantic drama starring Richard Gere.
“An Officer and a Gentleman” was a massive hit that turned Gere and Debra Winger into two of the biggest stars of the era. It follows Zack Mayo, a troubled young naval pilot cadet, and his relationships with his demanding drill instructor Sgt. Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.) and Paul Pokrifki, a woman who lives in the town near the base. Gossett won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, making Oscars history as the first Black winner in the category. The film also won Best Original Song for “Up Where We Belong.” It was directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Douglas Day Stewart,...
Deadline reports that the “Top Gun: Maverick” star is set to star in a modern retelling of “An Officer and a Gentleman,” the 1982 romantic drama starring Richard Gere.
“An Officer and a Gentleman” was a massive hit that turned Gere and Debra Winger into two of the biggest stars of the era. It follows Zack Mayo, a troubled young naval pilot cadet, and his relationships with his demanding drill instructor Sgt. Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.) and Paul Pokrifki, a woman who lives in the town near the base. Gossett won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, making Oscars history as the first Black winner in the category. The film also won Best Original Song for “Up Where We Belong.” It was directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Douglas Day Stewart,...
- 6/14/2024
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
Louis Gossett Jr., who was the first Black man to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, has died. He was 87.
(Sidney Poitier was the first Black man to win an acting Oscar. His win, in 1964, was as the lead in “Lilies of the Field.”)
Gossett won the Academy Award for his role as Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley, Richard Gere’s hardcore drill instructor in 1982 film “An Officer and a Gentleman.” He was just the third Black actor to receive a nomination in the category. Gossett won a Golden Globe for the role as well.
In 2023, Gossett appeared in the remake of “The Color Purple,” as well as in a pair of episodes of BET+ original series “Kingdom Business.” The same year, he lent his voice to an uncredited part of Michael Jai White’s “Outlaw Johnny Black.”
Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica,...
(Sidney Poitier was the first Black man to win an acting Oscar. His win, in 1964, was as the lead in “Lilies of the Field.”)
Gossett won the Academy Award for his role as Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley, Richard Gere’s hardcore drill instructor in 1982 film “An Officer and a Gentleman.” He was just the third Black actor to receive a nomination in the category. Gossett won a Golden Globe for the role as well.
In 2023, Gossett appeared in the remake of “The Color Purple,” as well as in a pair of episodes of BET+ original series “Kingdom Business.” The same year, he lent his voice to an uncredited part of Michael Jai White’s “Outlaw Johnny Black.”
Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica,...
- 3/29/2024
- by Tony Maglio
- Indiewire
Louis Gossett Jr., the tough guy with a sensitive side who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a steely sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman and an Emmy for his performance as a compassionate slave in the landmark miniseries Roots, has died. He was 87.
Gossett’s nephew told the Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica. The cause of death is unknown, but Gossett announced in 2010 that he had prostate cancer.
With his sleek, bald pate and athlete’s physique, Gossett was intimidating in a wide array of no-nonsense roles, most notably in Taylor Hackford’s Officer and a Gentleman (1982), where as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley he rides Richard Gere’s character mercilessly (but for his own good) at an officer candidate school and gets into a memorable martial arts fight.
He was the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, following Sidney Poitier in 1964.
For the role,...
Gossett’s nephew told the Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica. The cause of death is unknown, but Gossett announced in 2010 that he had prostate cancer.
With his sleek, bald pate and athlete’s physique, Gossett was intimidating in a wide array of no-nonsense roles, most notably in Taylor Hackford’s Officer and a Gentleman (1982), where as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley he rides Richard Gere’s character mercilessly (but for his own good) at an officer candidate school and gets into a memorable martial arts fight.
He was the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, following Sidney Poitier in 1964.
For the role,...
- 3/29/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new musical stage version of An Officer And A Gentleman will launch a North American tour in fall of 2020, producer Work Light Productions announced today.
The musical features a newly adapted book by Dick Scanlan (Tony-nominated in 2002 for Thoroughly Modern Millie and in 2010 for Everyday Rapture), based on an earlier book by Douglas Day Stewart (who wrote the screenplay for the 1982 movie) and Sharleen Cooper Cohen.
In addition to writing the newest version, Scanlan will direct. In a statement, he said, “Like all good stories, An Officer and a Gentleman is set in a specific world with its own culture, customs and costumes – the U.S. Navy. And like all great stories, its themes are universal: love, valor and the ways in which our reasons for pursuing a dream determine whether or not we’ll achieve it.”
The score will feature a catalogue of 1980s hits, including the film’s chart-topper “Up Where We Belong.
The musical features a newly adapted book by Dick Scanlan (Tony-nominated in 2002 for Thoroughly Modern Millie and in 2010 for Everyday Rapture), based on an earlier book by Douglas Day Stewart (who wrote the screenplay for the 1982 movie) and Sharleen Cooper Cohen.
In addition to writing the newest version, Scanlan will direct. In a statement, he said, “Like all good stories, An Officer and a Gentleman is set in a specific world with its own culture, customs and costumes – the U.S. Navy. And like all great stories, its themes are universal: love, valor and the ways in which our reasons for pursuing a dream determine whether or not we’ll achieve it.”
The score will feature a catalogue of 1980s hits, including the film’s chart-topper “Up Where We Belong.
- 7/18/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Actors Richard Gere and Louis Gossett, Jr. will be special guests at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. screening of “An Officer and a Gentleman,” in celebration of Paramount Pictures. 100th anniversary, on Tuesday, June 12, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Gere and Gossett will participate in an onstage post-screening discussion.
Directed by Taylor Hackford from a script by Douglas Day Stewart, “An Officer and a Gentleman” tells the story of a young man.s journey to chart a different path in his life by enlisting in the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. Through the obstacles Zack Mayo faces along the way, including a budding romance with local girl Paula Pokrifki and an ongoing conflict with his drill instructor, Zack learns important life lessons about becoming an officer.and a gentleman.
On the heels of his star-making role in “American Gigolo...
Directed by Taylor Hackford from a script by Douglas Day Stewart, “An Officer and a Gentleman” tells the story of a young man.s journey to chart a different path in his life by enlisting in the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. Through the obstacles Zack Mayo faces along the way, including a budding romance with local girl Paula Pokrifki and an ongoing conflict with his drill instructor, Zack learns important life lessons about becoming an officer.and a gentleman.
On the heels of his star-making role in “American Gigolo...
- 5/31/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
An Officer and a Gentleman, directed by Simon Philips and co-written by Douglas Day Stewart and composer and lyricist team Ken Hirsch and Robin Lerner, made its world premiere performance on May 18 at the Lyric Theater in Sydney, Australia. Despite the hype of the much anticipated musical, which is believed to have Broadway aspirations, the production was received with little enthusiasm by many critics revisit the Review Roundup here. Now, the movie and show's scribe, Douglas Day Stewart, has taken to the media to defend the piece in an open letter in The Australian against their negative reaction.
- 5/21/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Kirk Cameron, Left Behind Kirk Cameron: Gays 'Unnatural' – Plus Cameron's Banana Video As for Kirk Cameron, he hasn't had a very fruitful film career, as the vast majority of his work has been restricted to television. During his Growing Pains heyday in the '80s, Cameron was seen in only a handful of mainstream releases, all but one box-office bombs — e.g., Douglas Day Stewart's romantic drama Listen to Me (1989), opposite Jami Gertz, and the Robin Williams-Kurt Russell comedy The Best of Times (1986). The second phase of Cameron's film career is comprised of a few movies geared to Evangelical Christian audiences in the United States. In Vic Sarin's Armaggedon-themed Left Behind (2001), Cameron plays television journalist Buck Williams, described by the New York Times' Stephen Holden as "the most golly gee-whiz young journalist to appear since Jimmy Olsen stalked Superman." For all his naiveté, Williams uncovers...
- 3/4/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
ABC and NBC are headed out for the open seas with two separate drama projects about a group of castaways on a desert island from two A-list producers: J.J. Abrams and Mark Burnett. ABC has ordered a pilot and six additional scripts of Lost, a drama from Alias creator/executive producer Abrams and Touchstone TV. Meanwhile, NBC has picked up two scripts and a bible for Eden, a limited series from Burnett and Oscar-nominated writer Douglas Day Stewart that NBC Studios is expected to come on board to produce with Mark Burnett Prods. In other pilot pickup news, NBC has ordered a comedy from writer-producers DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler; Fox has given the green light to Lucky Us, a comedy from 20th Century Fox TV and Original TV, and The Big Island, a serialized drama from 20th TV and feature writer Peter Elkoff; and ABC has picked up Kat Plus One, a drama from Warner Bros. TV and producer Greg Berlanti, and has firmed up its commitment to Paramount Network TV's dramedy Harry Green and Eugene, starring Mark Valley.
- 1/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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