Edward Burns had one of those fairy tale Sundance debuts most filmmakers only dream about. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in 1995’s The Brothers McMullen, a film finished on a shoestring budget only for it to be selected for the festival, become a smash hit on Main Street, get acquired by Fox Searchlight and land the first timer a grand jury prize for his efforts before he hopped a plane back to New York.
In a wild twist of events, Burns is back 30 years later with a second installment in The Family McMullen. Ahead of its streaming debut this weekend on HBO Max, Burns talked to The Hollywood Reporter about how he found his way back to the DNA of the first film, what took so long and why he relied on his young stars to help him find that special sauce to appeal to a new generation of…
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