Article by: Tommaso Dufour
Translation by: Priscilla Valente
“A film written by a journalist and a political activist with the Ghostbusters director’s son”. With these words Jason Reitman opens the TFF36 press conference, of which The Front Runner is the opening film. He refers to Matt Bai – author of All the Truth Is Out, the novel the film is inspired by – and to Jay Carson – House of Cards producer and consultant. Reitman reveals then that the first frames, the Columbia’s vintage logo from Stripes (Ivan Reitman, USA, 1981), are a tribute to his father and to the film which accompanied the director’s childhood.