Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for Blue Moon, the new film from Richard Linklater and his ninth collaboration with actor Ethan Hawke. The film is set to open in U.S. theaters in October following its February premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
Written by Robert Kaplow, author of Me and Orson Welles—which Linklater adapted in 2008—Blue Moon explores the final days of lyricist Lorenz Hart, one half of the legendary songwriting duo Rodgers & Hart, responsible for more than 500 songs and 28 musicals between 1919 and the early 1940s.
The story unfolds over a single night, March 31, 1943, during the Broadway premiere of Oklahoma!, the first major success of Richard Rodgers with Oscar Hammerstein II. The action is set almost entirely inside New York’s iconic Sardi’s, a longtime gathering place for the city’s theater and entertainment elite.
The cast features Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers. Scott won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Berlinale for his performance.