Matthew McConaughey to become a university lecturer

Actor to teach 15-week film course at University of Texas with Hunger Games director

Matthew McConaughey is to become a university lecturer at University Of Texas in Austin, Texas.

The 15-week course to 30 students starts this autumn and sees The Hunger Games director Gary Ross as McConaughey’s joint lecturer.

The course, ‘Advanced Producing: Script To Screen’, will teach students about how to practically see a film script through to getting it made and all other areas of film production. The lessons will mainly be from pre-recorded videos made by McConaughey and Ross, but both will make one appearance each in class during the course.

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The module is based around the pair’s new film Free State Of Jones, a Civil War drama written by Ross and starring McConaughey as a former Confederate soldier who falls in love with a former slave woman played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw. It’s due out in September, coinciding with the start of the University Of Texas course.

Meanwhile, McConaughey’s new film The Dark Tower is out in 2017. Based on Stephen King’s seven-book fantasy series, McConaughey plays the villainous Man In Black opposite Idris Elba as gunslinger Roland Deschain trying to find a tower which holds the key to saving the earth. The film is directed by The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo director Nikloaj Arcel.

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