VIDEO: Richard Linklater Talks New Coming-of-Age Film EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!

Director and writer of the critically-acclaimed 2014 film “Boyhood,” filmmaker Richard Linklater stopped by NBC's TODAY to talk about his latest coming-of-age film, “Everybody Wants Some!!” along with two of its stars, Wyatt Russell and Blake Jenner. Linklater calls the new film, set in the fall of 1980, “the spiritual sequel to ‘Dazed and Confused,’” his 1993 film about Texas teens in 1976. Watch the appearance below!

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