Elijah Wood Stars In SET FIRE TO THE STARS Trailer And Poster

Opening in select U.S. theaters on June 12, watch the trailer for SET FIRE TO THE STARS.

The film premiered in 2014 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and was released in the UK in November.

Shelagh Rowan-Legg (Twitchfilm.com) wrote the film, “is a tribute not only to a poet, but to poetry, and how cinema can find its own way to convey poetry, through its own lyricism,” and “the stand-out feature of the poetic extention is by far the incredible score by Gruff Rhys.”

Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America.

Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet – tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss – who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the Fifties and challenged Brinnin’s hero worship of his work. In the face of the Welsh poet’s wilder excesses in the Big Apple – angel, beast and madman – John has no choice but to hijack Dylan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights that follow will change his life forever.

Part literary biopic and – shot in cut-glass black-and-white – part love-letter to the American B-movies of the Forties and Fifties, Andy Goddard’s (TV’s Doctor Who – 2008; Downton Abbey – 2011-12) debut feature is both a character driven chamber piece and a cautionary tale about the flytrap of meeting your heroes.

SET FIRE TO THE STARS opens Friday, June 12, 2015 in New York at The Village East with a national and Los Angeles release to follow on June 19 in major cities.

The film will be released nationwide on July 21 on DVD, VOD, Digital platforms and Itunes.

Elijah Wood in SET FIRE TO THE STARS