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First Look At THE CONSPIRATOR Trailer From Robert Redford

Here’s a first look at the trailer for director Robert Redford’s THE CONSPIRATOR. The film had it’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010.

 

That’s quite the cast…definitely eager to see this one!

Synopsis:

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks.

Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.

A suspenseful thriller with action throughout, The Conspirator tells the true story of a woman who would do anything to protect her family and the man who risked everything to save her.

Starring Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Huston and Kevin Kline, THE CONSPIRATOR will be in theaters on April 15, 2011.

Visit the film’s official site HERE.

Source: Yahoo! Movies

Luhrmann Talks THE GREAT GATSBY

The on-going rumor about another go at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY is alive and well. Too bad Hollywood is attempting to top the original. The Oscar winning 1974 version filled with soft lensed close-ups of Redford and Farrow is still sublime. The Nelson Riddle score forever magical.

I’d say anyone would be hard pressed to try to recapture that kind of lightning in a bottle, unless your MOULIN ROUGE director, Baz Luhrmann. MTV News pinned down Luhrmann on the status of the film he’s still pursuing as well as casting rumors. Here’s what the director had to say on THE GREAT GATSBY. 

And on Thursday, Production Weekly tweeted this:

Rumored casting for THE GREAT GATSBY, Leonardo DiCaprio for Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire for Nick Carraway & Amanda Seyfried for Daisy Buchanan.

To be truthful, I’m kind of torn on this. On the one side, a remake, or whatever you may call it, is so unnecessary. The idea of DiCaprio and Maguire in this film is fine, but Seyfried? Shame if that casting rumor comes to fruition. On the other side, if the project is green-lit, who better to go forward with it than Luhrmann. Undoubtedly, his wife and collaborator, Oscar winner Catherine Martin will once again serve as Production Designer.

We’ll keep you updated if and when the film begins production.

Source: MTV News

Robert Redford to Direct Lincoln Assassination Film

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It looks as if Robert Redford might be stepping in to take charge where Steven Spielberg is dragging his feet.   Redford won’t be doing a film about the life of Abraham Lincoln, though.   Instead, he will be directing ‘The Conspirator,’ a film about Mary Surratt, one of the conspirators behind the Lincoln assassination.   The screenplay was written by “The Bronx is Burning” scribe, James Soloman.

Surratt was a boardinghouse owner in DC.   She sympathized with the Confederates during the Civil War and supplied John Wilkes Booth and David Herold with weapons after the assassination had been completed.   Redford’s film will also deal with a young, Union soldier named Frederick Aiken who believed the woman to be innocent and who was appointed to defend her.

No casting has been completed, though, according to Risky Biz Blog, James McAvoy is near the top of the list, probably for the role of Aiken.   Produced by Greg Shapiro, Rob and Web Stone and Brian Peter Falk, ‘The Conspirator’ looks to begin shooting sometime in the Fall.