DUCK DYNASTY’s Robertson Family Is Hitting The Big Screen With THE BLIND
By Movieguide® Contributor
Fans of DUCK DYNASTY celebrated the recent announcement that the Robertson family will appear on the big screen!
The movie, titled THE BLIND, will follow patriarch Phil Robertson and his experience living in the 1960s South. The story will navigate Robertson’s struggles with alcoholism and being a good husband and father. THE BLIND is being filmed in the family’s native Shreveport, Louisiana.
The movie will be produced by Tread Lively Entertainment. The company previously worked with the Robertsons on their family’s podcasts.
There is no set release date yet, but THE BLIND is expected to hit theaters some time next year.
Movieguide® previously reported on the success of DUCK DYNASTY:
Unless you have only recently emerged from a Louisiana swamp, you have probably already heard the news: there’s this reality show on A&E called DUCK DYNASTY and, well, it’s kind of a big deal. One of the biggest deals around, actually.
Now in its fourth season, DUCK DYNASTY has – on four different occasions – beaten its own record as the most-watched show in the history of the A&E Network. The show’s ratings have increased steadily and significantly each season, and last month the show established itself as a bona-fide pop culture phenomenon when it became the most watched nonfiction telecast in cable television history. Regardless of how you define “nonfiction,” this is an impressive accomplishment.
In Hollywood, as in any industry, numbers get noticed, and DUCK DYNASTY has been putting up numbers that are impossible to ignore. The show’s unprecedented ascent has led pundits and studio heads alike to ponder how this happened, why it hasn’t happened sooner, and – most importantly – how they can get it to happen again.
Put one way, DUCK DYNASTY sounds like a reality show we’ve seen a hundred times before. It’s a vaguely-scripted depiction of the purportedly “real” lives of a wealthy American family. Episodes are peppered with all of the wacky antics, funny accents and regional oddities expected from Reality TV. Beards and Bibles have replaced botox and spray tans, but there is much about the show that feels familiar.
Much of this familiarity is a function of the genre itself. The fact is, you don’t get your life turned into TV shows unless there is something weird or unique about you, and – in case you couldn’t tell from the photos – there is plenty of things unique about the Robertson family.
This is why it’s a little amusing to hear the DUCK DYNASTY cast celebrated as standard bearers for “traditional family values.” At first glance, there is very little that is “traditional” about the Robertsons. They’re millionaires. They have beards to their belly buttons. They wear nothing but camouflage and drive trucks taller than my house.
They have Uncle Si, the family jokester who provides a lot of the comic relief. If you can look past the gimmicks and the Reality TV shenanigans, you will find, as ABC News said it, “a family that despite their looks, may not be so different from your own.”
For all of their peculiarities, the Robertsons are a stable and loving family who actually enjoy one another’s company. The men – despite their bellowing – love their wives. The women – despite their rolled eyes – love their husbands. The children – despite their ages – respect their parents. They are a family that works together, plays together, and – oh yes – prays together, and it is for these reasons that The Robinsons feel so familiar to so many people.
Whereas Reality TV has made a living for the past decade shining a light on all that is dysfunctional and grotesque in America, the Robertson family has broken ratings records and raised eyebrows by being, well, normal.
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