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You wouldn’t normally expect a director like Joel Schumacherto be premiering a film at the Sundance Film Festival, but as Schumacher himself points out, his career is full of smaller films that were made for little money and featured young, up-and-coming casts. ***Twelve ***](http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/twelve_sundance2010)looks to continue a Schumacher trend that began with films like St. Elmo’s Fire, The Lost Boys and *Flatliners *when it screens in the Premieres section at Sundance next week.
Featuring a cast that includes Emma Roberts, Chace Crawford, 50 Cent, Zoe Kravitz, Rory Culkin and Kiefer Sutherland (who reunites with Schumacher for a fifth time, and the first since 2002’s Phone Booth), *Twelve *(based on Nick McDonell’s novel) is a gritty drama that follows a young drug dealer who finds his life slowly spiral out of control after his best friend is arrested for the murder of his cousin. *Cinematical *caught up with Schumacher ahead of the film’s premiere to learn a little more about it.
Cinematical: Give us the “word on the street” description of your film.
**Joel Schumacher: **White Mike is a teenage dropout who sells drugs to the over-privileged, under-loved youth of New York’s upper east side. A.K.A. – beautiful guys, beautiful babes, fu*ked up lives.