In conjunction with Independence Day, ShowBiz Direct has announced that tickets will go on sale July 4 for the upcoming movie "Reagan," which was filmed primarily in Oklahoma.
Billed as the first full-length feature film about America's 40th president, "Reagan" stars Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight and Penelope Ann Miller and is set to debut exclusively in theaters nationwide Aug. 30.
Moviegoers can find theater locations and order advance tickets at https://www.reagan.movie. Advance tickets are already available for groups of 50 people or more.
When and where in Oklahoma was the movie 'Reagan' filmed?
The biographical drama about the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan began filming in the Oklahoma City and Guthrie areas in September 2020. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Oklahoma was one of the few states where filming on movies like "Reagan" could continue.
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The production was headquartered in Guthrie, with filming centered at the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple. In the trailer, viewers can get a glimpse at how the historic building stood in for the Oval Office at the White House, the fabled Cocoanut Grove supper club in Hollywood and even some locales in Cold War Russia.
Although the production was forced to shut down twice due to COVID, the project, which used the state's film rebate, created 1,966 local jobs and generated $16.6 million in direct spending in fall 2020, according to the Oklahoma Film + Music Office.
The production moved to California in early 2021 to film at Reagan's Rancho Del Cielo ranch outside of Santa Barbara. It returned to Guthrie in summer 2021 to shoot additional footage, including outdoor water sequences from the president's youth, as well as John Hinckley Jr.'s 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan.
Filming also took place on Air Force One, according to a news release.
Reagan served two terms as president, from 1981 to 1989, and died on June 5, 2004, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Who stars in 'Reagan' and how much of Ronald Reagan's life does the movie cover?
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the biopic follows Ronald Reagan's life from his childhood in Dixon, Illinois, to his acting career in Hollywood, to the U.S. presidency and the world stage.
Quaid, who has made at least three movies in Oklahoma with "Reagan," 2018's "I Can Only Imagine" and 2021's "American Underdog," portrays Reagan as an adult. Tommy Ragen ("Mighty Oak," the musical "School of Rock") and David Henrie ("Wizards of Waverly Place") play Reagan as a boy and as a young man, respectively.
Voight ("Deliverance," "Coming Home") co-stars as Viktor Petrovich, a fictional KGB agent who trails Reagan throughout his political career. "Reagan" begins as 90-year-old Petrovich — a composite character based on real people — is visited by an up-and-coming Russian leader who wants to know how the Soviet Union was lost.
The spy who knows everything there is to know about Reagan recounts the tale of his adversary — the man he mockingly nicknamed “The Crusader" — beginning in 1922, when 11-year-old Ronald Reagan faces the first crisis of his eventful life.
Directed by Sean McNamara ("Soul Surfer," "The Miracle Season"), the biopic also features Penelope Ann Miller as Reagan's first lady, Nancy Reagan; Mena Suvari as Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman; Lesley-Anne Down as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and Kevin Dillon as Warner Bros. co-founder Jack Warner.
The supporting cast includes Mark Moses, Trevor Donovan, Xander Berkeley, Dan Lauria, Amanda Righetti, C. Thomas Howell, Nick Searcy, Justin Chatwin and Robert Davi.
Plus, several Oklahoma performers played roles in the film, including Darci Lynne, Darryl Cox, Kyle Jacob Henry, Chris Freihofer, Randy Wayne, Rachel Cannon and Maggie McClure and Shane Henry.
"Reagan" is inspired by Paul Kengor's book "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism" and written by Howard Klausner ("Space Cowboys") and Jonas McCord ("Ask the Dust").
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