AMERICAN WOMAN von Lesley Barber

[horner1980]

Zitat

Lesley Barber (Manchester by the Sea, You Can Count On Me, Mansfield Park) has been tapped to score the upcoming drama American Woman. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Semi Chellas (Ophelia, Mad Men) and stars Hong Chau, Sarah Gadon, John Gallagher Jr., Lola Kirke and Ellen Burstyn. The movie tells the story of the women who cared for kidnapped newspaper heiress-turned-fugitive Patty Hearst. Chellas also wrote the screenplay and is also producing the project with Christina Piovesan (The Whistleblower, Regression). American Woman is expected to premiere later this year.

Neue Chance auf ein Lesley Barber-Score.. Film beruht auf einer wahren Geschichte, welche ich aber selbst nicht kenne.. klingt jedoch nicht uninteressant, wenigstens in der ausführlicheren Beschreibung hier:

Zitat

Chau will play Jenny Shimada, a 25-year-old former radical on the run for an act of violence against the American government who agrees to care for three younger fugitives delivered to her by an individual from her former life. One of them, Hearst, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors’ ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.
Quelle: https://variety.com/2017/film/news/downsizing-hong-chau-patty-hearst-movie-american-woman-1202574857/

 

 

[Sebastian Schwittay]

Ist das dann ein Remake von Paul Schraders PATTY HEARST? Oder einfach eine Neuverfilmung der Geschichte?

[horner1980]

vor 11 Minuten schrieb Sebastian Schwittay:

Ist das dann ein Remake von Paul Schraders PATTY HEARST? Oder einfach eine Neuverfilmung der Geschichte?

Eine Neuverfilmung, in der Patty Hearst nur eine Nebenrolle spielt.
Um die direkte Geschichte rund um Patty Hearst hätte es ja in der Verfilmung von James Mangold gehen sollen, aber diese wurde Januar 2018 gecancelt.  Gründe dafür sind ein wenig unklar.. aber scheint fast so, als ob da jemand nicht mutig genug war, um die Produktion weiterlaufen zu lassen.
 

Zitat

 

Logan director James Mangold’s project has just been scrapped. The filmmaker had been gearing up to make a biopic based on the life of kidnapping victim Patty Hearst, but THR reports that 20th Century Fox has now scrapped the movie altogether, largely due to Hearst’s complaints about the project.

The film was based on author Jeffrey Toobin’s unauthorized book American Heiress, which recounted how Hearst was kidnapped in the mid 1970s by the Symbionese Liberation Army and transitioned “from hostage to warrior” during a two-year period. The heiress was rescued when she was caught on tape participating in armed bank robberies with her captors. Hearst maintained that she was acting under the threat of death and had been brainwashed, and after a lively trial, she ended up serving 22 months in jail for armed robbery.

The decision to cancel Mangold’s film comes on the heels of Hearst releasing a statement saying she was inspired by Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the Golden Globes and adding that Toobin’s book “romanticizes” her rape and torture:

“I am further saddened and appalled that Fox 2000 agreed to finance and produce a movie based on Toobin’s book (with a similarly themed screenplay, also written by men) and that CNN has agreed to continue to perpetuate a one-sided dialogue romanticizing my torture and rape by hosting a podcast and docuseries through Toobin’s distorted lens.”

CNN is producing a docuseries about the ordeal called The Radical Story of Patty Hearst which has yet to be scuttled, but Fox has decided not to move forward with this project following Hearst’s statement.

Elle Fanning had been attached to play the heiress in the film, and it was eyeing a spring start-date as Mangold’s Logan follow-up. The filmmaker has a number of other movies in the works, from the cop drama The Force to the children’s book adaptation Crenshaw, so it’ll be interesting to see what he tackles next.

Another project he may not be doing anymore is the X-24 spinoff focusing on Dafne Keene’s character from Logan. In the wake of Fox’s sale to Disney, reports swirled that that project is now on hold and may not happen anymore. Indeed, there are a lot of questions still unanswered as the long transition process is about to begin, and one wonders if the Disney deal had anything to do with Fox canceling this Patty Hearst movie.
Quelle: http://collider.com/patty-hearst-movie-cancelled-fox-james-mangold/#images

 

Vielleicht handelt daher dieser Film hier nur indirekt über die Entführung, und hebt andere Personen in den Vordergrund. So oder so.. glaube schon, dass ich ihn mir mal anschauen werde.

[Sebastian Schwittay]

Schau dir auch mal den Schrader-Film an, der lohnt sich sehr.

[horner1980]

vor 8 Minuten schrieb Sebastian Schwittay:

Schau dir auch mal den Schrader-Film an, der lohnt sich sehr.

Wenn er mir mal über den Weg läuft, mach ich das. Danke für den Tipp.