Cyrano Trivia | 35 facts about the movie

Cyrano is a 2021 musical romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright based on Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name.

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1. Cyrano is a 2021 musical romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright and with a screenplay by Erica Schmidt.
2. It is based on Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name.
3. The stage musical is based on the 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac.
4. The film stars Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Ben Mendelsohn.
5. Cyrano had its world premiere at the 48th Telluride Film Festival on 2 September 2021.
6. The movie had a one-week theatrical run in Los Angeles on 17 December 2021.
7. It was for a wide theatrical release in the United States and the United Kingdom on 25 February 2022.
8. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
9. It was nominated for several awards, including a Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Dinklage) at the 79th Golden Globe Awards, four nominations at the 75th British Academy Film Awards and a Best Costume Design nod at the 94th Academy Awards.
10. It was announced in August 2020 that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had acquired the rights to the film, which was written by Erica Schmidt, based on her stage musical Cyrano.
11. The film was produced by Working Title Films, and Joe Wright was set to direct.
12. Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett will reprise their roles from the stage musical, with Ben Mendelsohn and Brian Tyree Henry also cast.
13. Kelvin Harrison Jr. joined the cast in September 2020.
14. Bashir Salahuddin later joined the cast to replace Henry.
15. Music for the film was written by members of the National, who also wrote the music and lyrics for the stage musical.
16. Principal photography began in Sicil in October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
17. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2021. By the end of its festival run, it screened at the Hamptons, Mill Valley, Rome, and Savannah.
18. The film was widely theatrically released in the United States and the United Kingdom on February 25, 2022.
19. The film was originally scheduled for a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2021, but the release date was then moved to December 31.
20. In November 2021, the film’s release plans were changed by United Artists Releasing in an effort to better position itself for Academy Awards qualification and contention: it had an exclusive one-week theatrical run in Los Angeles on December 17, prior to a planned limited theatrical release on January 21, 2022, before expanding in subsequent weeks.
21. The release date in the US was shifted to a limited release on January 28, before opening wide on February 11.It was shifted again to a solely wide release on February 25, without a limited release, on the same date as its release in the UK.
22. The UK release was originally scheduled for release on January 14, but was postponed by Universal Pictures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic response.
23. Haley Bennett and Peter Dinklage reprise their roles from the 2018 Connecticut-based Goodspeed Musicals production of Cyrano, which also had a limited run off-Broadway in New York in late 2019.
24. Haley Bennett and director Joe Wright are a couple in real-life. This is their first collaboration together.
25. Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) was a real-life French writer. In 1897, Edmond Rostand wrote a highly-fictionalized version of Cyrano’s life. Rostand’s version of events has inspired many further retellings.
26. Most of the movie was shot in Sicily, around Noto, Scicli and Syracuse
27. Peter Dinklage played the role of Cyrano on stage before appearing in a film adaptation, just as José Ferrer did generations earlier with Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).
28. The writer of this adaptation, Erica Schmidt, is Peter Dinklage’s wife.
29. This film is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. By virtue of this studio’s ownership of United Artists, and of Orion Pictures, MGM also owns the 1950 film Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) starring José Ferrer, and the American distribution rights to the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) starring Gérard Depardieu.
30. In the original play, Cyrano is self-conscious about the size of his nose
31. The sixth collaboration between Joe Wright and director of photography Seamus McGarvey.
32. Another similar movie called Roxanne (87) had Steve Martin playing the lead role.
33. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 85% of 215 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website’s consensus reads, “Uneven yet ultimately hard to resist, Joe Wright’s Cyrano puts a well-acted musical spin on the oft-adapted classic tale.”
34. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100 based on 45 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.
35. As of March 6, 2022, Cyrano grossed $2.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $3.6 million.