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Fox Pulls Plug on Patty Hearst Movie After Heiress Complains the Book Romanticizes Her Rape
It’s now unclear what’s next for director James Mangold, but we’d love to see him get serious about making The Force, based on the excellent cop novel by Don Winslow. Mangold’s last film, Logan, was one of the best movies of 2017.
The film will examine Patty’s relationship with SLA leader Cinque, aka Donald DeFreeze, and it should be another juicy role for Fanning, who will be coming off of Woody Allen’s new movie.
Fanning currently stars in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, while Chalamet’s acclaimed Sundance drama Call Me by Your Name will hit theaters this fall.
A shy teenager living in a small town in Eastern Europe enters an international singing competition.
Awesomeness Films is adapting Teresa Toten’s YA novel Beware That Girl and they are looking to Elle Fanning to fill the starring role. Cut from the same cloth as psychological thrillers Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, the film follows two girls at an elite Manhattan private school as they manipulate each other in a game of cat and mouse.
Meadowland‘s Reed Morano has booked Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning to star in I Think We’re Alone Now. Automatik is behind the project with Morano directing with a script from Mike Makowsky.
The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s.
A young gangster climbs through the ranks during the Prohibition era.
A Storm in the Star has found its Percy Shelley to its Mary Wollstonecraft. British actor, Ben Hardy will step into the role of the legendary poet who married the woman who would later become the author of the literary classic Frankenstein.
