Sam Rockwell Doubles Up in ‘Gentlemen Broncos’

I’ve long been a fan of Sam Rockwell so when I heard he was to play double roles in an upcoming film called Gentlemen Broncos I knew I had to find out more about it. As it turns out, the films sounds like it might be unlike anything we’ve seen him do before.

In the movie, Rockwell will be playing double roles. Well, actually he’ll be playing double roles in the movie within the movie. Or, rather, the same role in the movie within the movie but with a different name. Sound confusing? Rockwell recently gave an interview to MTV Movies Blog in which he explained what the movie and his double roles are all about:

“The protagonist [of the film] is Michael Angarano and he’s an aspiring screenplay writer. He goes to a writer’s camp and a famous sci-fi author comes to visit. [The author] is kind of a hack writer and hasn’t had a hit in a long time. He’s judging all the screenplays at the camp and he plagiarizes Michael’s story which is a Flash Gordon-like story called “Bronco, the Yeast Lords.’ He changes the names and makes it into a character called Brutus,” Rockwell said of the film’s set-up. “I play both characters when they are reenacted on the big screen. I play Brutus AND Bronco.”

Sounds pretty crazy. I don’t know why, but the idea of Sam Rockwell playing a Flash Gordon-like character really seems to work - comically anyway.

Even better, Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess is the director of the film so we can only hope for some more of that awesome comic timing shining through.

“It’s a movie I have a good feeling about,” Rockwell said of the movie. “What I do is really silly in the movie. This just goes way out there. It’s a crowd pleaser.”

I’ll keep my eyes and ears open for any news I can get on this production.