Director and co-writer Ethan Hawke first became interested in the works of Flannery O'Connor in his early teens, when he and his mother lived in Atlanta, Georgia and his mother worked selling textbooks to local colleges. Hawke read so much of O'Connor's works that he assumed she was as well known outside of his household as Abraham Lincoln.
Filmed in Louisville, Kentucky.
The five stories adapted by Wildcat are:
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
"Parker's Back"
"Revelation"
"Everything that Rises Must Converge"
"Good Country People"
Additionally, O'Connor's family gush about Gone With the Wind, suggesting an origin for her story, "A Late Encounter with the Enemy." In real life it was inspired by an article in the Midgeville Union Recorder.
Additionally, O'Connor's family gush about Gone With the Wind, suggesting an origin for her story, "A Late Encounter with the Enemy." In real life it was inspired by an article in the Midgeville Union Recorder.
Years before shooting his Jesus scene with Laura Linney in "Wildcat" (starring Maya Hawke, directed by Ethan Hawke), Mehmet worked with director and cinematographer Mykhailo Bogdanov for a class project at DePaul University in Chicago, for which they recreated a scene from "Training Day" with Mehmet playing Ethan Hawke's character, Officer Jake Hoyt. A few months later, Mykhailo develops an idea for a short film, "Avoesis", for which he casts Mehmet to play Jesus, two years prior to Ethan Hawke casting Mehmet as his Jesus for "Wildcat".
Cooper Hoffman's second film after his acting debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021).
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