Following up from the film’s release date alteration, Focus Features has unveiled a new poster for Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s adaptation of Ned Vizzini’s “It’s Kind Of A Funny Story” that’s somewhat of an improvement on the first generic one.
Author Vizzini also reveals that the film will now play on approximately 500 screens country-wide for it’s October 8th release, instead of the originally planned limited LA/NY September 24th bow. Definitely sounds like a vote of confidence from Focus which bodes well for the film’s prospects.
The film has been described as “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” meets “The Breakfast Club” and follows the story of a suicidal teen (Keir Gilchrist) who accidentally checks himself into an adult psychiatric hospital and is forced to stay in for the minimum five days.
There, he runs into an array of interesting characters played by several members of the stellar cast, including Zach Galifinakis, Emma Roberts, Zoë Kravitz, Jeremy Davies,Viola Davis, Aasif Mandvi, Lauren Graham and Jim Gaffigan. Canadian indie-rockers Broken Social Scene have written original music for the film.
Before it’s general release,”It’s Kind Of A Funny Story” will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. You can look at some new images from the film after the jump. [NedVizzini/TIFF]