Another day, another “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” For Your Consideration Oscar poster.
Like the previous “hey Oscars!” posters they released, this one is equally self-deprecating and self-aware about the film’s chances at Oscar glory. “Our movie is the dumbest movie to ever beg for an Oscar.” ‘Walk Hard’ writer/producer Judd Apatow told USA Today knowingly in September
Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) is shown in his skives battling the cops in his later ‘Lost Weekend’ period, which includes drugs, booze, threesomes, monkeys and forgetting the names of his children.
Can’t wait to see this. Our screening this week got cancelled, but next week will be our glory day.
In the meantime, we’ve gotten our hands on the ‘Walk Hard’ Original Music Soundtrack. Below we’ve posted two tracks from the film that are both sung by and produced by Michael Andrews (who produced the whole album). The first track is “Take My Hand,” a fluffy, wholesome ’50s Buddy Holly-esque number featured in the trailer and the second is Cox’s schmaltzy disco-lite take on David Bowie’s “Starman.”
The disc comes out December 4, but don’t forget an expanded version with with 15 additional tracks will be available on ITunes, but the release date of those tracks is still unknown at the moment. The video for “Walk Hard” surfaced online about two weeks ago.
Watch: Dewey Cox – “Let’s Duet”