New Trailer for “Patsy & Loretta” Film Looks Promising
As first reported by Saving Country Music in March, a new dramatic film called Patsy & Loretta is on its way that follows the careers of Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn as they intertwined in the early 60’s. Though some of this subject matter was covered in the critically-acclaimed Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter from 1980, the new film focuses on the friendship between the two stars exclusively. Megan Hilty, who appeared in the music drama series Smash as well as the theater adaptation of 9 to 5, plays Patsy Cline. Jessie Mueller, who won a Tony Award in 2014 for portraying Carol King in a musical, plays Loretta Lynn. The film was shot on location in Nashville in March.
Many familiar names worked on the Patsy & Loretta project, including director Callie Khouri who wrote Thelma & Louise and was a major figure behind the recent Nashville television series. Patsy Cline’s daughter Julie Fudge and Loretta Lynn’s daughter Patsy Lynn Russell also worked on the film as co-producers. The script was written by Angelina Burnett. Sony Pictures Television is the studio for the film.
Patsy & Loretta will air on Lifetime in the Fall, with the official release date yet to be announced. Though some may be concerned that the film will carry a made-for-TV aspect since it’s being shown on Lifetime, a trailer just released for the film (see below) shows that the subject matter will not be all rosy, and the story will delve deep into the complicated relationships the two women faced both with their men, and the music business.
Patsy Cline was already an established star when Loretta Lynn showed up to Nashville with a $17 guitar. Instead of Patsy seeing Loretta as a potential competitor or replacement, she took Loretta under her wing, and they soon became close friends, touring partners, and confidants, helping each other through the struggles of fame and familial problems.
The friendship of the two country legends came to a tragic end when Patsy Cline died in 1963 at the age of 30 in a plane crash that also took the lives of Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas. Meanwhile Loretta would go on to be known as the First Lady of Country Music, and is still recording and releasing music today at the age of 87.
More information on Patsy & Loretta when it becomes available.
July 23, 2019 @ 8:06 pm
I always enjoy watching these. The last one I saw was about Johnny Cash. I definitely record this to my DVR.
July 23, 2019 @ 8:46 pm
Looks interesting. Always fun to watch these.
July 23, 2019 @ 8:50 pm
I didn’t have high expectations because it is Lifetime, but this trailer really impressed me. I just might end up watching this!
July 23, 2019 @ 9:02 pm
There’s definitely plenty of material there for a movie–even though they already did movies on both stars!
BTW, that’s Hawkshaw Hawkins–not Hankshaw–who died in the plane crash with Patsy and Cowboy Copas.
July 24, 2019 @ 8:25 am
I don’t think this is necessarily a movie that needed to be made, it does not look bad and might give some new information on the friendship, however you can tell a huge difference in the overall acting and story compared to Coal Miners Daughter. Sissy Spacek is an all time great actress. Lifetime movies tend to have a little bit more of a generic feel to them, but they can still an interesting watch. I guess we will have to see, but it is not something that I would rush to the TV for.
July 24, 2019 @ 11:44 am
Can you give me some examples of movies that need to be made?
July 24, 2019 @ 1:05 pm
LoL! I literally can’t think of one.
July 24, 2019 @ 3:42 pm
”Can you give me some examples of movies that need to be made?”
Duh ….all of the Avengers movies , of course ….sheesh …c’mon BB ?
July 24, 2019 @ 9:55 pm
The Fat Boys Disorderlies.
July 24, 2019 @ 10:59 am
Coal Miner’s Daughter is my all time favorite movie. I’m sure I will enjoy this, but as someone said above, going from Sissy Spacek being a clone of Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones doing such a great Mooney so these guys is going to be a hard adjustment
July 24, 2019 @ 12:54 pm
Really looking forward to this. Lifetime or not, great to see these ladies and their friendship get a film.
July 24, 2019 @ 1:17 pm
It being on Lifetime gives me pause. Two women in rough relationships is their bread and butter, as they have always specialized in showing movies where women are victims of abuse or rape or other mistreatment. Typically, they either get their revenge or wind up dead. In the case of the latter, a crusading female detective/prosecutor vows to bring the killer (who is ALWAYS a male) to justice. I wonder how Lifetime will square showing this movie that doesn’t have such an ending. There must be some redemptive, uplifting ending to the whole affair that I cannot foresee, as Patsy dies.
July 24, 2019 @ 3:59 pm
I suppose they can turn “Mooney” or whatever-his-name-is into a manipulative, wife-beating monster-psychopath as Loretta struggles to get herself out of his clutches–and ultimately triumphs.
Yeah, that’s probably what they’ll do.
July 25, 2019 @ 8:24 am
Trig the bitch cant handle sarcastic comments Ha!
July 26, 2019 @ 5:30 am
Sorry, but no no 1,000 times no. I did not have high hopes for this from the time I heard it announced, primarily due to the timing and the casting. I tried to be optimistic because of Julie & Patsy’s involvement. Khouri’s too because I’ve always been a big Thelma & Louise fan (didn’t know about her “Nashville” involvement, but that explains a lot).
To be fair, I’ll admit, these 2 are beyond larger than life for me (while still being people I consider closer than most family). Always have been, always will be. Loretta’s been a huge part of my life as far back as I can remember, & I was Patsy crazy (no pun intended) at the ripe old age of 7 (largely thanks to LL….& a bit my Dad). And believe me, it wasn’t peanuts either. Being a Classic Country Music snob that young, in the late 90s, was nothing if not polarizing. As I sit here now I have Patsy (my 12 year old beagle) laying on the bottom of my bed. I lost her biological sister a year ago, 3 guesses to her name???? I’ve bonded with the most important people in my life over them, and they’ve both “played” as I laid to rest the 2 people in this world I loved the most. Yes, I’m biased. When it comes to the legacies of (imho) the most important female singers this world has ever (or will ever) know you’re damn right I am. So should everyone.