{"id":385693,"date":"2026-03-15T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385693\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:36:09","slug":"brians-ben-wang-calls-film-gen-z-charlie-brown-sxsw-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385693\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brian&#8217;s Ben Wang Calls Film &#8220;Gen Z Charlie Brown&#8221; \u2014\u00a0SXSW Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>BRIAN<\/strong><br \/><strong>Section:<\/strong>\u00a0Narrative Feature Competition<br \/><strong>Director:<\/strong> Will Ropp<br \/><strong>Screenwriter:<\/strong>\u00a0Mike Scollins<br \/><strong>Logline:<\/strong>\u00a0It sucks to be Brian. He\u2019s smart, funny, and capable, but his mental health issues make it hard for anyone to see it \u2013 especially when compared to his effortlessly cool older brother. At school, Brian harbors an unrequited crush on Brooke: she\u2019s smart, kind, pretty\u2026 and very much his teacher. A disastrous drama club audition leads to yet another one of Brian\u2019s trademark public meltdowns. Thus begins Brian\u2019s search for his new \u201cthing.\u201d On paper he\u2019s chosen the worst possible fit: running for class president. With help from his therapist and the new kid, Justin, Brian launches his high-stakes campaign and sparks a messy, exquisitely awkward journey toward self-acceptance.<br \/><strong>Panelists:<\/strong>\u00a0Will Ropp, Ben Wang, Randall Park, Edi Patterson, Natalie Morales<br \/><strong>Sales Agent:<\/strong>\u00a0CAA, Gersh<br \/><strong>Premiered:<\/strong>\u00a0March 14, 2026<br \/><strong>Key Quote:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWhat I like, really, about this movie overall is, I think of it like \u2018Gen Z Charlie Brown\u2019. This is an archetypal sort of\u2014\u201dloser\u201d is a strong word\u2014but he\u2019s an archetypal kid trying to figure it out. And what I love about the movie is, it really incorporates every hardship that a kid could possibly struggle. He has it at the same time,\u201d explained Wang.<br \/><strong>Deadline Studio at SXSW presented by Redbreast Irish Whiskey.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRIANSection:\u00a0Narrative Feature CompetitionDirector: Will RoppScreenwriter:\u00a0Mike ScollinsLogline:\u00a0It sucks to be Brian. He\u2019s smart, funny, and capable, but his mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[150643,55793,18,117,19,17,327,62590,176472],"class_list":["post-385693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ben-wang","tag-brian","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-sxsw","tag-sxsw-studio"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}