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I have received great feedback on my latest screenplay -- BUT (there's always a but) the concern is that my protagonist goes from eight to eighteen in the story. Over the course of the story, he goes from eight - to twelve - to fifteen - to eighteen -- and each age gets roughly the same amount of screen time. Of course, I thought about this when I started writing the story, but I went ahead and wrote it because I was really passionate about it.
My question is whether anyone knows of another movie (hopefully a successful one) where a kid has progressed in age like this. It's obviously easier for an adult character to age, because they can use make-up for the same actor. However, in my case they would definitely need to cast two, probably three different actors to play the protagonist's role. According to one producer, that would make it expensive and also hard for the audience to attach themselves to the character. I'm certainly not disagreeing with that, but I'm wondering if you know of anything similar. My model was Cinema Paradiso in which the protagonist went from eight to mid-teens to late teens to a middle aged man. They used three actors to play the role.
My question is whether anyone knows of another movie (hopefully a successful one) where a kid has progressed in age like this. It's obviously easier for an adult character to age, because they can use make-up for the same actor. However, in my case they would definitely need to cast two, probably three different actors to play the protagonist's role. According to one producer, that would make it expensive and also hard for the audience to attach themselves to the character. I'm certainly not disagreeing with that, but I'm wondering if you know of anything similar. My model was Cinema Paradiso in which the protagonist went from eight to mid-teens to late teens to a middle aged man. They used three actors to play the role.
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