Netflix Buys ‘Train Dreams’ At Sundance, Deal In High Teen Millions

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Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones appear in Train Dreams by Clint Bentley, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Adolpho Veloso. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Adolpho Veloso

Netflix is buying the Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones drama Train Dreams. Sources tell us that the deal was in the high teen millions.

Pic is based on the 2011 Denis Johnson novella and directed by Academy Award-nominee Clint Bentley. Bentley co-adapted with Greg Kwedar. Movie follows Robert Grainer, an average man living in extraordinary times, who worked as a day laborer in the American West at the beginning of the 20th century. Battered by the death of his family, he struggles to adjust to this new environment.

Deadline first told you about the first deal out of Sundance: Neon’s $15M global pick-up of Michael Shanks’ horror movie Together starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Damon Herriman.

Black Bear and Kamala Films produced with Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, Michael Heimler producing. EPs are Edgerton, Scott Hinckley, Kwedar and John Friedberg.

William H. Macy and Kerry Condon also star.