Another Lincoln-centric film, The Green Blade Rises, the directorial debut of Aj Edwards is already in the works.
Brit Marling (Another Earth) and Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games) have joined the cast of upcoming feature film about Honest Abe’s formative years – Bentley will play the President’s first teacher, while Marling will play Lincoln’s biological mother Nancy who passed away when he was nine.
They join Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and Jason Clarke (Public Enemies), who are already on-board as Lincoln’s step-mother and father.
Edwards worked with Terrence Malick as an editor on The New World, The Tree of Life, and To the Wonder, so it’s no wonder why Malick agreed to produce Edwards directorial debut with the original script he also wrote.
The role of a baby boy Abraham Lincoln has not yet been cast, but with filming to take place this fall, we’ll soon find out.
Brit Marling (Another Earth) and Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games) have joined the cast of upcoming feature film about Honest Abe’s formative years – Bentley will play the President’s first teacher, while Marling will play Lincoln’s biological mother Nancy who passed away when he was nine.
They join Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and Jason Clarke (Public Enemies), who are already on-board as Lincoln’s step-mother and father.
Edwards worked with Terrence Malick as an editor on The New World, The Tree of Life, and To the Wonder, so it’s no wonder why Malick agreed to produce Edwards directorial debut with the original script he also wrote.
The role of a baby boy Abraham Lincoln has not yet been cast, but with filming to take place this fall, we’ll soon find out.
- 9/29/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Giving the type of performances worthy of year-end-awards, co-stars Annette Bening and Naomi Watts will bring plenty of attention to filmmaker Rodrigo García's engaging melodrama “Mother and Child”, due for release this May from Sony Pictures Classics. While a melodrama in the best sense of the word, a tale of mothers, daughters and family relationships, Garcia also creates stand-out roles for Samuel L. Jackson and Jimmy Smits as key men who share the lives of the film’s fascinating women. Thanks to Jackson and Smits, “Mother & Child” becomes a film for everyone, not just a tale for women. Rodrigo also makes beautiful use of Los Angeles’ diverse communities (with the help of cinematographer Xavier Pérez Grobet and production designer Christopher Tandon). Receiving positive audience response at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it screened in the Spotlight section, ‘Mother & Child’ earns comparisons to L.A.-set ensemble dramas from Paul Thomas Anderson...
- 3/3/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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