{"id":1107,"date":"2007-11-01T23:24:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T22:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/01\/london-film-festival-2007-michael-pena-and-andrew-garfield-on-lions-for-lambs\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T23:16:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T22:16:43","slug":"london-film-festival-2007-michael-pena-and-andrew-garfield-on-lions-for-lambs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/11\/01\/london-film-festival-2007-michael-pena-and-andrew-garfield-on-lions-for-lambs\/","title":{"rendered":"London Film Festival 2007: Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield on Lions for Lambs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0891527\/\"><strong>Lions for Lambs<\/strong><\/a> had its world premiere last week at the London Film Festival and I recently spoke to two of the actors in the film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0671567\/\"><strong>Michael Pena<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1940449\/\"><strong>Andrew Garfield<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/whatson\/lff\/film_programme\/gala_special_screenings\/lions_lambs\" title=\"Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/michael-pena-and-andrew-garfield.JPG\" alt=\"Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a political drama dealing with the current war on terror by focusing on three interconnected stories: a Senator (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000129\/\">Tom Cruise<\/a>) briefs a journalist (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000658\/\">Meryl Streep<\/a>) about a new government strategy for Afghanistan conflict; a college professor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000602\/\">Robert Redford<\/a>) tries to awaken a promising but apathetic student (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1940449\/\">Andrew Garfield<\/a>); and two US soldiers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0671567\/\">Michael Pena<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1035682\/\">Derek Luke<\/a>) become stranded on an Afghan mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Redford, it is the first film under the new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Artists#The_Cruise.2FWagner_Era\">United Artists<\/a> studio which Cruise now runs with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0906048\/\">Paula Wagner<\/a> after his departure last year from Paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interviews by clicking below:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-11-01-89929.mp3]\n<p>To download this as a podcast via iTunes just click the image below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/itunes.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It opens in the UK on Friday 9th November.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?web=podcast-2007-11-01-89929.mp3\">Download these interviews as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/whatson\/lff\/film_programme\/gala_special_screenings\/lions_lambs\">Find out more about Lions for Lambs at the official LFF website<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/lionsforlambs\">Lions for Lambs YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lions for Lambs had its world premiere last week at the London Film Festival and I recently spoke to two of the actors in the film, Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield. It is a political drama dealing with the current war on terror by focusing on three interconnected stories: a Senator (Tom Cruise) briefs a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}