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Showing posts with label Lizzie Borden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lizzie Borden. Show all posts
Monday, November 20, 2017
New/old photo of Kristen on the 'Lizzie' set - 18 December 2016
Kristen appears to be in the photo with Wendy Geary, an assistant director on "Lizzie".
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
New/old photo of Kristen on the 'Lizzie' set
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Clyde the movie dog: One of the coolest, nicest, and most badass chicks I've ever met. I love me some K Stew!!!
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
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Friday, December 16, 2016
First official still from 'Lizzie' + more details on the film
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Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one.
The story of Lizzie Borden and the brutal murder of her father and stepmother has long been one of early America’s signature — and very bloody — folk tales, and one that has inspired scads of adaptations for both the stage and screen, including a 1965 opera and a recent Lifetime made-for-TV movie and its subsequent limited series sequel, both starring Christina Ricci as the accused murderer.
But popular culture isn’t done with Lizzie yet, and a new film from “The Boy” director Craig William Macneill and newbie screenwriter Bryce Kass (he previously penned the 2014 TV movie “Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs”) looks to revisit the enduring tale, with a brand new twist. The film stars Chloe Sevigny as Lizzie, with Kristen Stewart taking a turn as the Borden maid Bridget Sullivan, and will reportedly use the pair’s relationship as a new lens from which to explore the crimes.
The new look at the Borden mythos is billed as a “gothic psychological thriller with an indelible romance at its core.” The film will explore “the events that led up to the notorious murders of the Borden family — and reveals the many layers of the strange, fragile woman who stood accused of their brutal murder” and will pick up “when Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the Borden family, [and] Lizzie finds a sympathetic and kindred spirit, and what begins as innocent companionship eventually escalates into attraction, love and bloody vengeance.”
“Lizzie” also stars Fiona Shaw, Jamey Sheridan, Kim Dickens, Denis O’Hare and Jeff Perry.
The film just wrapped principle production in Savannah, Georgia, and has celebrated by releasing a first look image at the film. There’s no blood, but definitely some dead people. Take a look.
“Lizzie” has not yet been picked up for distribution, but will likely arrive sometime in 2017.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Photos of Kristen filming 'Lizzie' in Savannah - December 2016
Stacey Panepinto (Makeup): #onlocation Lizzie #homestretch (shared pic below)
Night-time set photos are from 13 December.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Kristen and Ang Lee's interview with Courier Mail (Australia)
Director Ang Lee had only seen one Kristen Stewart film when he approached the actor to play a pivotal role in his groundbreaking drama Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, about a traumatised US soldier who is celebrated as a hero when he returns from the Iraqi War. It wasn’t Twilight.
The performance that had etched itself onto Lee’s subconscious was the free-spirited teenager Stewart played Sean Penn’s survival drama Into The Wild (2007).
In terms of screen time, that role, shot the best part of a decade ago when Stewart was just 16 or 17, didn’t amount to much more than a cameo.
“It reminds me of how Heath Ledger used to work for me,” says Lee.
“If you saw him in one movie — like Monster’s Ball — you just remembered him. He was like the emotional core.
“Kristen gave me that vibe.”
The far-reaching impact of Stewart’s performance in Into The Wild goes some way to explaining the success the former “tabloid brat” has had in reinventing herself as a serious independent actor in the wake of the final Twilight instalment, which was released in 2012.
The actor had already received solid reviews for her performances as Joan Jett in The Runaways, Marylou in On the Road, and Em Lewin in Adventureland.
Post-Twilight, however, the critics have been positively effusive.
“Sensational” was the adjective Rolling Stone used to described Stewart’s performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, for which she became the first US actor ever to win a Cesar, or French Oscar.
"The role … calls for a baleful eye, rare cunning and expert comic timing. Stewart nails every nuance,” was the verdict.
Recent notices for Woody Allen’s Café Society, in which she starred opposite Jesse Eisenberg, have been even more enthusiastic.
“Stewart is good enough to almost make you wish for another version of The Great Gatsby just so she could play Daisy,” said the Hollywood Reporter.
“Glorious” was New Statesman’s passionate summary of her performance.
“It’s been hard, but obviously every step I have taken has led me to this particular spot,’’ Stewart told News Corp Australia when American Ultra was released last year.
“And I wouldn’t change it. Not personally. Not professionally. Nothing.”
With the benefit of hindsight, it’s the phenomenally-successful Twilight Saga stands out as the aberration in a career that spans Panic Room with Jodie Foster (2002), and more recently Still Alice (2014), with Julianne Moore.
Lee approached Stewart to play the role of Billy Lynn’s sister because he needed an actor who was capable of packing a big punch in a relatively short space of time.
“It’s an angry part. She sort of represents the dissolution of the American dream,’’ he says.
“It’s not a big role but it’s a significant one; the emotion lands on her final scene. The movie didn’t have time to develop her actually so it’s a lot to ask.
“I think she delivered.
”She has the necessary weight and intensity and devotion.”
For Stewart, who is currently dating singer-songwriter Annie Clark, better known as St Vincent, the character functions as the film’s emotional backbone.
She embraced the challenge but “without sounding simplistic, I would probably have done anything with Ang. I have grown up watching his films.”
An added incentive was Lee’s decision to push the technological boundaries of 3D, shooting the film at 120 frames per second, twice the previous record (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and five times the standard speed of 24fps.
The technology is so groundbreaking, only half a dozen cinemas in the world have the capacity to screen it in that form.
"The way it’s being captured is just so forward and I wanted to be the first step in that new process,” says Stewart.
But when it comes to choosing roles, the actor insists she has no real game plan.
"I make really instinctual, impulsive choices in terms of stories and people that I find myself able to bring to life.”
Like the Ben Fountain novel from which it was adapted, Billy Lynn is set on a single day in 2004.
The title character’s Iraqi War platoon is to be celebrated at the Dallas Cowboy’s Thanksgiving halftime show.
But everybody seems to have their own take on the war hero’s story, which is revealed in flashback.
And that makes it exceptionally difficult for the traumatised soldier to work out what his own version might be.
“He comes home a different man. There’s a massive separation or divide that occurs,” says Stewart, whose outspoken character is passionately concerned for her brother’s welfare.
She tries desperately to dissuade her brother from going back.
“It’s not the most divided way of looking at things — it was a ridiculous and senseless war,’’ says the actor who plays her.
“Let’s be honest, we didn’t know. But when you put young boys in the middle of that, it’s important for our generation of filmmakers to tell those personal stories.
“Yes it’s political. But at the same time it’s just so close to home, it needs to be explored.”
After shooting seven films, back-to-back, over the past two years, Stewart has taken a bit of time to “replenish the well.”
“I got a little burned out,” she says.
“My schedule was pretty full on for a long time … I guess I tempered it rather than taking a break.”
During that “down time” she wrote and directed the short film Come Swim, which is currently in the final stages of post- production.
“I have never been happier doing anything,” she says.
“It was so much fun.
"I don’t see a huge distinction between acting and directing — it’s kind of like the next level of my life and I feel really lucky to be able to explore that now.”
Over the Christmas break, Stewart intends to start developing her first feature.
But right now, she is filming the psychological thriller Lizzie, based on the infamous 1892 Borden family murders, in Savannah.
Chloe Sevigny plays the title character. Stewart plays the young maid she befriends.
After that, the 26-year-old actor is open to offers.
“I am just going to keep my head down and plough through,” she says.
“There is no rhyme or reason as to how things fall into your lap, what becomes the story that you want to tell.
“I have nothing other than my gut to lead me and it’s not let me down so far.
"So right now I have no grand plans. I am just going to carry on.”
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Photo of Kristen in Savannah with makeup artist Stacey Panepinto - 19 November 2016
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The photo was shared by makeup artist, Stacey Panepinto, who is working on 'Lizzie' in Savannah.
Also known for doing makeup on several other Kristen films eg. 'Equals', 'Breaking Dawn' Part 1 and 2, 'Cafe Society', 'SWATH', 'American Ultra' and 'The Cake Eaters'.
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Friday, November 11, 2016
Update on the 'Untitled Lizzie Borden' project + more details on production
Deadline - 10 November
Jay Huguley has been cast opposite Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny in the Craig William Macneill-directed upcoming Untitled Lizzie Borden biopic. The script was written by Bryce Kass and filming is said to begin next week.
The pic revolves around the story surrounding the infamous murder trial of convicted axe killer Elizabeth Borden (Sevigny), who was eventually acquitted for the 1892 murder her father and stepmother in Fall Rivers, MA. Huguley will play William Henry Moody, the prosecuting attorney in the case. Stewart plays Bridget Sullivan, the Borden’s live-in maid and a key witness.
Naomi Despres and Elizabeth Destro are producing.
Savannah Area Film Organisation - 18 October
Principal photography is set for Nov 14th – Dec 16th.
Fan photos of Kristen in Savannah, Georgia - 10 November 2016
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Kristen is in Savannah, Georgia, to film the Lizzie Borden movie with Chloe Sevigny.
Find the newest updates on the project here.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Kristen in negotiations to star with Chloe Sevigny in Lizzie Borden movie
Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart will help tell the tale of Lizzie Borden.
Pieter Van Hees, who helmed the 2014 film Waste Land, will direct the new untitled psychological thriller about the grisly murders of the Borden family. Bryce Kass will write the script.
Sevigny will play Borden, the strange and fragile woman who was infamously tried and acquitted for murdering her father and stepmother with an ax in 1892. The film will explore the events that led up to that night.
Stewart, who is in early negotiations, will play the Bordens' live-in maid, Bridget Sullivan. Sullivan was a witness to the family tension, and may have been in the home when the murders were committed. She testified at the trial.
The crime was salacious and notorious for the age, inspiring children's rhymes such as: "Lizzie Borden took an ax/and gave her mother 40 whacks/when the job was finally done/gave her father 41." It also spawned many theories about who committed the murders and why; one theory insinuates that Borden and Sullivan were lovers.
Naomi Despres (Kill the Messenger) is producing, while Playtone is executive producing. The Solution is selling the project, which has no start date, at the upcoming American Film Market. WME is repping domestically.
Borden's tale has been adapted for TV and film, most recently the 2014 TV movie starring Christina Ricci.
Sevigny, who was previously attached to a Lizzie Borden project at HBO, starred on FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum and American Horror Story: Hotel. She won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress for her work on HBO's Big Love, and her other credits include Bloodline, Portlandia and the film Electric Slide. She's repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment.
Since Twilight, Stewart has focused on indie fare, including Equals, the Drake Doremus film that premiered at Venice and then Toronto. Among her other recent credits are American Ultra, Still Alice and Clouds of Sils Maria, for which she received a Cesar award (France’s equivalent for the Oscar). She has a slew of projects coming up including a Woody Allen film and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, directed by Ang Lee. She's repped by Gersh and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Kass is repped by Principato-Young Entertainment.
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