Following her big-budget debut in Kong: Skull Island, Brie Larson will have some more genre fun in Free Fire later this spring, but she’ll soon return to more independent dramatic fare. Deadline reports that Larson is prepping Victoria Woodhull, which has been picked up by Amazon Studios. Following the first female candidate for presidency of the United States, Larson is set to produce and star in the biopic, which follows the titular suffragist who, in 1872, ran and was nominated for President — a whole 40 years before women had the right to vote. Brett Ratner is attached to direct, with a script penned by Ben Kopit.
In related news, Larson’s director on Room, Lenny Abrahamson, is set to direct his next feature, according to Deadline. Titled Burning Rainbow Farm, it’s an adaptation of the book by the same name from Dean Kuipers. The book tells the true story of...
In related news, Larson’s director on Room, Lenny Abrahamson, is set to direct his next feature, according to Deadline. Titled Burning Rainbow Farm, it’s an adaptation of the book by the same name from Dean Kuipers. The book tells the true story of...
- 3/26/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Brie Larson signs on to tell story of free love and nineteenth-century presidential politics.
Last year, I talked about how it was Amazon’s big year of becoming a serious production house by buying a lot of serious movies. But there was something missing in that award-gathering arsenal: namely women. Contrary to their namesake, Amazon had spent much of their multi-level spying money on putting beefcake after beefcake onto the big screen. But times look to be a changing, as Amazon has announced signing on Brie Larson to both produce and star in a movie about Victoria Woodhull with a script penned by Ben Kopit, mostly known for having written some Brett Ratner movie that’s still in production. Woodhull, however, is known to most as the first woman to run for president, her 1872 candidacy for the office predating the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution by over thirty years.
Larson, like...
Last year, I talked about how it was Amazon’s big year of becoming a serious production house by buying a lot of serious movies. But there was something missing in that award-gathering arsenal: namely women. Contrary to their namesake, Amazon had spent much of their multi-level spying money on putting beefcake after beefcake onto the big screen. But times look to be a changing, as Amazon has announced signing on Brie Larson to both produce and star in a movie about Victoria Woodhull with a script penned by Ben Kopit, mostly known for having written some Brett Ratner movie that’s still in production. Woodhull, however, is known to most as the first woman to run for president, her 1872 candidacy for the office predating the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution by over thirty years.
Larson, like...
- 3/24/2017
- by Andrew Karpan
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Victoria Woodhull: Brie Larson (Kong: Skull Island, above) will star as the titular character in Victoria Woodhull. It's the true story of the first woman to run for U.S. president back in 1872; she was described as "a women’s liberator, nonconformist, conniver, narcissist, politician and rebel." Amazon Studios just acquired the project, which will be written by Ben Kopit; Larson will also serve as a producer. [Deadline] Ian McKellen: After portraying...
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- 3/23/2017
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Exclusive: Amazon Studios has acquired Victoria Woodhull, with Oscar winning Room star Brie Larson poised to produce, and play the first female candidate for the presidency of the United States. Amazon bought it in a pitch package deal. Ben Kopit, who wrote the Warner Bros film Libertine that has Brett Ratner attached to direct, will write the script. Larson will produce alongside Whalerock Industries’ Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman. Anne Woodward is exec producer and…...
- 3/22/2017
- Deadline
Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard are set to star in the Brett Ratner-directed "The Libertine".
Inspired by former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Ben Kopit scripted tale centers on a French diplomat (Depp) who is accused of sexual assault and put under house arrest.
In real life, the case against Strauss-Kahn fell apart due to the questions surrounding the credibility of the maid and a lack of physical evidence. A later civil suit was settled out of court.
Despite the same title and involvement of Depp, the film has no connection with the 2004 period drama "The Libertine".
Source: THR...
Inspired by former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Ben Kopit scripted tale centers on a French diplomat (Depp) who is accused of sexual assault and put under house arrest.
In real life, the case against Strauss-Kahn fell apart due to the questions surrounding the credibility of the maid and a lack of physical evidence. A later civil suit was settled out of court.
Despite the same title and involvement of Depp, the film has no connection with the 2004 period drama "The Libertine".
Source: THR...
- 5/11/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Brett Ratner has announced that his next directorial effort will be The Libertine, a film loosely based on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal. Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard are both set to star in the movie, and Ratner will be directing from a script by Ben Kopit. Described as "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? meets The Wolf Of Wall Street," the comedic take on the 2011... Read More...
- 5/11/2016
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
Johnny Depp is set to star in “The Libertine,” a movie inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, that will be directed by Brett Ratner, TheWrap has learned. Ben Kopit wrote the script, which offers a comedic take on the international incident that saw Strauss-Kahn resign as managing director of the International Monetary Fund following allegations that he assaulted a hotel maid. A criminal case ultimately fell apart, though the economist settled a civil suit out of court. The scandal was previously depicted in Abel Ferrara‘s drama “Welcome to New York,” which saw Gerard Depardieu play a character based on Strauss-Kahn.
- 5/11/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Brett Ratner reveals he has found his next directing project. It’s called The Libertine, and Johnny Depp is attached to a Ben Kopit script, with Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman producing. The focus is a powerful French politician who endures house arrest in a luxury NYC apartment while awaiting trial for sexual assault against a hotel maid. It is loosely based on the 2011 incident involving French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Warner Bros is involved and it…...
- 5/11/2016
- Deadline
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