Chronicle: Hot Guys with Power!
In the new surprise hit movie Chronicle, a group of high school friends who wish they weren’t as awkward, stumble upon a cave hiding a mysterious crystal and, wow! Suddenly they can move things with their minds. Like most of us, the guys shoot video on just about all of their activities. Andrew, Matt and Steve really go video-wacko shooting their feats of crushing cars, flying and more! How fun would that be!?
Then… they start doing some cool but darker stuff. Let’s get revenge on the popular crowd. How about impressing that special girl? What would you do if this happened to you? Sure, you might put it on YouTube but morally, would you kick butt unfairly, illegally? Good questions.
This film is shot in the “found footage” style that worked for Cloverfield but combined with characters with superhero powers. Kinda unique.
Andrew (Dane Dehann) is an introverted, socially awkward teen guy who even before he becomes telekinetic, seems to be attached to his camera. It’s the only thing he can connect with. He’s the ‘fly-on-the-wall’ guy who everybody in school kind of knows, but they either ignore or bully. He’s the creative loner.
Dane says “When you’re given the ultimate power, and if you’re experiencing something that nobody has ever experienced, there’s a certain God complex that comes of that.” Most of the movie Andrew is the guy behind the lens. Dane did operate the camera for many scenes although the pros were recording too.
The two other members of the newly empowered high school trio are Andrew’s cousin, Matt (portrayed by Alex Russell), and campus king Steve (Michael B. Jordan). Matt is a cynical, know-it-all, too-cool-for-school guy. Alex says “What grabbed me about the project was that the concept is so surreal; it’s about teens with superpowers but at the same time it’s so ingrained with reality. Matt couldn’t be more unlike Andrew and Steve. They would never have become friends under ‘normal’ circumstances but they become incredibly tight through their shared experience.”
Michael B. Jordan, whom you probably saw in TV’s “Friday Night Lights” plays Steve. “He’s everything a high school guy wants to be; the most popular, a top athlete, and is not far from becoming school president. He comes into Andrew’s life like a guardian angel, pulling him into the school’s social scene, and Andrew starts to feel good about himself.
Who are these relatable, cute guys? Check their bios:
DANE DEHAAN (Andrew Detmer), just three years into his professional career, has wasted no time establishing himself as one of the industry’s fastest rising stars.
Dane is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Jesse on HBO’s Golden Globe®- winning series “In Treatment”. Next year Dane is in the film Wettest County, with Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, and Mia Wasikowska. Dane recently completed filming on Jack and Diane (with Kylie Minogue) and he joins Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen and Jack Huston in Kill Your Darlings, a thriller about a murder that brought together the writers would spark the Beat Revolution. He began his film career under the direction of two time Oscar® nominee John Sayles in his latest feature, Amigo.
ALEX RUSSELL (Matt Garetty), is an Aussie boy and graduate of that country’s prestigious NIDA acting program, and was one of the first actors in his class to land a leading role in a feature film.
Alex starred in the film Wasted on the Young, which was one of the breakout films at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Upon his arrival in Los Angeles, Alex was cast in the independent feature, Almost Kings. He has since filmed the highly anticipated Australian film, Bait, opposite Julian McMahon and Xavier Samuel.
MICHAEL B. JORDAN (Steve Montgomery) has starred in TV’s “The Wire”, and “Friday Night Lights”. He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the hard-shelled, softhearted young urbanite Wallace in “The Wire”, and then he went on to star as the role of quarterback Vince Howard on “Friday Night Lights”. Recently, he played a recovering alcoholic Alex, on NBC's “Parenthood”.
Michael first caught the eye of Bill Cosby and was cast in the recurring role of Michael for the CBS sitcom series “Cosby” as a kid way back in 1999. At the same time, he appeared on the HBO series “The Sopranos” and he played Jamal, in the Paramount Pictures feature film, “Hardball”, starring Keanu Reeves.
Michael has been in “All My Children”, “CSI”, “Cold Case”, “Lie to Me”, “Without a Trace” and “Law & Order”. He plays “Bumps” Wilson in the recent film Red Tails about the first African American pilots to fly in a combat squadron in WWII.
