{"id":22804,"date":"2021-01-28T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=22804"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:19:32","slug":"bu-alums-latest-film-the-little-things-stars-denzel-washington-remi-malek-jared-leto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2021\/01\/bu-alums-latest-film-the-little-things-stars-denzel-washington-remi-malek-jared-leto\/","title":{"rendered":"BU alum&#8217;s latest film, &#8220;The Little Things,&#8221; stars Denzel Washington, Rami Malek &#038; Jared Leto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22805\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/littlethings-jan21.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Little Things&quot; movie poster\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/littlethings-jan21.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/littlethings-jan21-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/littlethings-jan21-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/littlethings-jan21-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a film career that\u2019s spanned three decades, Baylor alum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/magazine\/1301\/index.php?id=869598\">John Lee Hancock<\/a> (BA \u201979, JD\u2019 82) has written and\/or directed such hit movies as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0878804\/\">The Blind Side<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0265662\/\">The Rookie<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2140373\/\">Saving Mr. Banks<\/a><\/em>. Now, almost one year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2019\/03\/baylor-filmmakers-latest-movie-the-highwaymen-stars-costner-and-harrelson\/\">his last release<\/a>, Hancock is behind the camera once again for his 12th feature film, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10016180\/\">The Little Things<\/a>,<\/em> which debuts in theaters and on HBO Max this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring an all-star cast that includes Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto, the psychological thriller depicts the dissonance between a Kern County deputy and a Los Angeles detective during the investigation of a serial killer in the 1990s. (Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1HZAnkxdYuA\">the trailer<\/a> below; language and violence warning.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE LITTLE THINGS \u2013 Official Trailer\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1HZAnkxdYuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s debut comes almost 30 years after Hancock first wrote the script. \u201cIt would have saved us a lot of money to make it contemporary,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-lee-hancock-denzel-washington-movies-rami-malek-jared-leto-9272e017eeb064dc04e533b95f30b0a4\">Hancock told the AP<\/a>. \u201cBut I liked the idea that this was pre-DNA 1990. Investigations were harder. Everything was harder. You had to take rolls of quarters for payphones.\u201d In another interview, Hancock told <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/01\/the-little-things-jered-leto-john-lee-hancock-interview-contenders-1234679366\/\">Deadline<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad it&#8217;s taken this long [to make] because we wouldn&#8217;t have this amazing cast if we had done it back in &#8217;92.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, John Lee Hancock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a film career that\u2019s spanned three decades, Baylor alum John Lee Hancock (BA \u201979, JD\u2019 82) has written and\/or directed such hit movies as The Blind Side, The Rookie, and Saving Mr. Banks. Now, almost one year after his last release, Hancock is behind the camera once again for his 12th feature film, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}