Whether she’s being dragged screaming across the floor of a mental hospital in “Invisible Man” or lumbering drunkenly with a cigarette and a sneer at a decorous dinner party in “Shirley,” Elisabeth Moss doesn’t take her roles home with her at the end of the day. “I don’t even take it to the car,” she said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Or back to my trailer.”
That’s surprising, given that Moss needs no introduction as the onscreen harbinger of mad, messy women, and she played two of them exceptionally (again) in 2020. First, in Leigh Whannell’s Universal monster movie homage “The Invisible Man,” updated as a post-#MeToo gaslighting thriller, and then, in Josephine Decker’s jagged portrait of gothic fiction writer Shirley Jackson, “Shirley.” Both performances required harrowing physical and mental feats, but anyone who knows Moss, or has spoken to her over the...
That’s surprising, given that Moss needs no introduction as the onscreen harbinger of mad, messy women, and she played two of them exceptionally (again) in 2020. First, in Leigh Whannell’s Universal monster movie homage “The Invisible Man,” updated as a post-#MeToo gaslighting thriller, and then, in Josephine Decker’s jagged portrait of gothic fiction writer Shirley Jackson, “Shirley.” Both performances required harrowing physical and mental feats, but anyone who knows Moss, or has spoken to her over the...
- 1/21/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Exclusive: It was an explosive and controversial story when it was published in 1948 and still remains so to this day. Shirley Jackson’s classic short story The Lottery, which centers on violence, inhumanity and judgment in a small New England town, is being adapted — for the first time — as a feature film by a producing team led by Kennedy/Marshall at Paramount Pictures. Jake Wade Wall (The Hitcher) is writing the screenplay and author Jackson’s son Laurence Hyman (who runs the estate) is an executive producer on the project.
Frank Marshall, a veteran filmmaker who has, in recent years, produced such features as Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, Jason Bourne and Sully, will produce along with Zero Gravity’s Christine Holder, Andrew Wilson and Mark Holder. Andy Raymer is the exec for the project at Kennedy/Marshall and Liz Raposo and Jon Gonda are sheparding the development at Paramount.
“I...
Frank Marshall, a veteran filmmaker who has, in recent years, produced such features as Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, Jason Bourne and Sully, will produce along with Zero Gravity’s Christine Holder, Andrew Wilson and Mark Holder. Andy Raymer is the exec for the project at Kennedy/Marshall and Liz Raposo and Jon Gonda are sheparding the development at Paramount.
“I...
- 7/25/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Douglas' Further Films is moving into Shirley Jackson's castle.
The company is developing the novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," Jackson's 1962 tome about a reclusive, potentially murderous family.
Further will produce the project with Literal Media, the firm that reps Jackson's work and a company in which Further has a stake. Laurence Hyman, Jackson's son and literary executor, also will have a produce role.
The Wme-repped Mark Kruger has penned a draft of the screenplay. Kruger most notably was a producer-writer on "The 4400," the supernatural series that aired from 2004-07 on the USA Network. Producers are out to cast.
"Castle" revolves around the Blackwood family -- primarily of sisters Merricat and Connie and their uncle Julian -- who have been forced into seclusion after the mysterious lethal poisoning of several of their family members six years earlier. Merricat is the younger sister, caring for the agoraphobic Connie,...
The company is developing the novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," Jackson's 1962 tome about a reclusive, potentially murderous family.
Further will produce the project with Literal Media, the firm that reps Jackson's work and a company in which Further has a stake. Laurence Hyman, Jackson's son and literary executor, also will have a produce role.
The Wme-repped Mark Kruger has penned a draft of the screenplay. Kruger most notably was a producer-writer on "The 4400," the supernatural series that aired from 2004-07 on the USA Network. Producers are out to cast.
"Castle" revolves around the Blackwood family -- primarily of sisters Merricat and Connie and their uncle Julian -- who have been forced into seclusion after the mysterious lethal poisoning of several of their family members six years earlier. Merricat is the younger sister, caring for the agoraphobic Connie,...
- 8/17/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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