Check Out The Official Poster For THE SKELETON TWINS

Here’s a look at the brand new poster for director Craig Johnson’s THE SKELETON TWINS. (via EW)

The film had it’s premiere in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

As Jeffrey Wells’ (Hollywood Elsewhere) wrote after the Sundance screening, “Bill Hader‘s angry, vulnerable, hurting-guy performance in The Skeleton Twins is a career-changer. He’s no longer the SNL smartass who delivers zingy movie performances on the side. He’s now a real-deal actor who can bore into a character as deeply as any other gifted performer.”

As children, Maggie and Milo Dean seemed inseparable. But tragedy hit their family as teenagers when their father died, sending them on different paths, and ultimately leading to a decade-long estrangement. Now in their thirties, another set of near-tragedies brings them together. Melancholic Milo (Bill Hader), a frustrated actor with no prospects, decides to accept his sister’s offer to return to their hometown in bucolic upstate New York. However, he’s unaware that Maggie (Kristen Wiig) herself is barely holding it together, secretly unhappy despite her loving husband Lance (Luke Wilson).

Principal photography lasted for 22 tightly scheduled days. “Even with 22 days, it was an absolute dream shoot,” remembers Johnson. “It was so much fun that after day two or three, I thought to myself ‘Wow, things are really going okay!’ I didn’t dare say it out loud, but by the last couple of days we were all saying it!”

“It’s a dream,” says Hader. “It’s only Craig’s second movie, it’s a low budget movie on a tight schedule, but you’d never know it. It’s so relaxed and it all comes from the top down. The whole crew has been joyous, it’s like you never want it to end.”

Luke Wilson agrees: “Craig is really thoughtful and funny and I think there’s a certain power that comes with being laid back – that calmness that comes from being confident, which he definitely has.”

For Hader, Johnson’s passion for the characters are what made the process so gratifying. “He cares so much about these two people,” says Hader. “He hates watching scenes where we fight, hates seeing the characters when they are down. And it means the world when Craig comes up to me after a scene and says ‘you nailed that.'”

THE SKELETON TWINS will open in theaters September 19.

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