{"id":2186985,"date":"2025-12-04T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2186985"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:24:22","slug":"edward-burns-reveals-why-it-took-30-years-to-make-a-sequel-to-sundance-hit-the-brothers-mcmullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/edward-burns-reveals-why-it-took-30-years-to-make-a-sequel-to-sundance-hit-the-brothers-mcmullen\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Burns Reveals Why It Took 30 Years to Make a Sequel to Sundance Hit \u2018The Brothers McMullen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0122653\/\">Edward Burns<\/a> had one of those fairy tale <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1083053\/\">Sundance<\/a> debuts most filmmakers only dream about. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in 1995\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112585\/\">The Brothers McMullen<\/a>, 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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0970266\/\">Fox Searchlight<\/a> and land the first timer a grand jury prize for his efforts before he hopped a plane back to New York.<\/p>\n<p>In a wild twist of events, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7734709\/\">Burns<\/a> is back 30 years later with a second installment in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35495052\/\">The Family McMullen<\/a>. Ahead of its streaming debut this weekend on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0754095\/\">HBO Max<\/a>, Burns talked to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0087279\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Burns had one of those fairy tale Sundance debuts most filmmakers only dream about. 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