If you were looking for a sequel to “Jackie,” this is probably as close you’re going to get. Last year, Rob Reiner‘s “LBJ” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and it’s taken a little while to resurface. However, perhaps in an awards season bid, the film is now coming to cinemas this fall, with Woody Harrelson under heavy makeup in the title role.

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The organizers of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival announced its initial slate of Gala and Special Presentation films coming to Toronto this fall, and the slate spans blockbusters to auteur cinema.

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The most exciting thing about any festival is discovering something new, and there are any number of titles in Toronto that could end up being something special.

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It’s six weeks away from the start of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the launch of the awards season. It surely will amount to a bounty of offerings for cinephiles, as Hollywood puts a troubling summer in the rear view and gets ready to show off prestige pictures. This morning, organizers at TIFF raised the curtain on the first wave of Gala and Special Presentation pictures.

Among the highlights of the films coming to Toronto this year in the Special Presentation slate are: Marc Forster‘s “All I See Is You” starring Blake Lively, Andrea Arnold‘s “American Honey,” Ewan McGregor‘s “American Pastoral,” Nate Parker‘s Sundance sensation “Birth Of A Nation,” Miles Teller‘s boxing flick “Bleed For This,” western “Brimstone” starring Guy Pearce, Rachel Weisz‘s “Denial,” Paul Verhoeven‘s controversial “Elle,” Park Chan-Wook‘s “The Handmaiden,” musical “La La Land” starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Kenneth Lonergan‘s “Manchester By The Sea,” Christopher Guest‘s “Mascot,” Pablo Larrain‘s “Neruda,” Tom Ford‘s “Nocturnal Animals,” Jim Jarmusch‘s “Paterson,” Asghar Farhadi‘s “The Salesman,” Werner Herzog‘s “Salt And Fire,” “Toni Erdmann,” “Trespass Against Us” starring Michael Fassbender and “Una” starring Ben Mendelsohn and Rooney Mara.

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Woody Harrelson Will Reportedly Play Lyndon B. Johnson In Biopic Directed By Rob Reiner

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