{"id":85964,"date":"2016-03-31T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=85964"},"modified":"2016-04-15T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:51:19","slug":"michael-shannon-talks-midnight-special-and-starman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/michael-shannon-talks-midnight-special-and-starman\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shannon talks Midnight Special and Starman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/prdOOo8hHq0\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Nichols&#8217; brilliant sci-fi <strong><em>Midnight Special\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is out in the UK on 8 April, and we had the chance to sit down with its awesome star Michael Shannon to talk about his experiences shooting, those <strong><em>Starman<\/em><\/strong> comparisons and his favourite movie dad (kind of).<\/p>\n<p>In <strong><em>Midnight Special<\/em><\/strong>, Shannon plays Roy, whose son Alton (Jaeden Lieberher)\u00a0with incredible powers. Together with his friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton), the duo race across the American South to reach a certain set of co-ordinates by a certain date and time, but can they outrun the government forces chasing them down?<\/p>\n<p>The incredible cast also includes Kirsten Dunst as Alton&#8217;s mother, Adam Driver as a government scientist fascinated by his abilities, and Sam Shephard as the leader of a religious community who believe that the boy is their saviour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midnight Special is released in UK cinemas on 8 April. Read more about the film in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4193\/s\/scifinow-issue-117\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the latest issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kr1tclhaGy0\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked to Michael Shannon about Jeff Nichols&#8217; awesome Midnight Special<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":85965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,1718,7],"tags":[3360],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-31-at-14.12.24.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}