Sofia
Coppola is the first
American woman to ever be nominated for Best Director. After The Virgin
Suicides and Lost in Translation she's ready for a new wonderful
movie. She's set to direct Marie-Antoinette
for Columbia Pictures: the movie was announced by Amy Pascal, Chairman of Sony
Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group. Written by Sofia Coppola, the film will
be a stylized telling of the queen Marie-Antoinette. Sony will
distribute the film worldwide with the exception of France and Japan, the rights
to which Coppola has retained. The movie will be based on Antonia Fraser's biography of the
queen. Fred Roos, Francis Ford
Coppola, and Paul Rassam will serve as executive producers. Shooting begun
in France on March and mostly they'll be in Versailles' Palace.
Kirsten
Dunst (22) will play Marie-Antoinette in the last Sofia Coppola's movie. When
Kirsten was seven years old, she worked with Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola
and Martin Scorsese in New York Stories and she became very famous after appearing
in the two Spider-Man movies. She has just finished filming
Wimbledon with Paul Bettany, the unlikely story of a British tennis champion
and she will also play in Cameron Crowe's drama Elizabethtown. Kirsten
Dunst is an old friend of Sofia Coppola, infact she appeared in Sofia’s first film,
The Virgin Suicides.
Jason
Schwartzman, Sofia Coppola's cousin, will play Louis XVI. He started his
career in Wes Anderson's Rushmore and he will appear with Nicole Kidman
and Will Ferrell in the upcoming
remake of Bewitched. Schwartzman will soon be seen in I
Heart Huckabees, with Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law and Mark Wahlberg,
and Shopgirl, with Steve Martin. He and Sofia Coppola, both appeared in Roman Coppola's drama
CQ.
Other cast's members are
Rip Torn (Louis XV), Judy Davis (Comtesse de Noailles), Steve Coogan (Count de
Mercy), Asia Argento (Comtesse du Barry), Marianne Faithful (Empress
Maria-Teresa), Aurore Clement (Duchesse de Chartres), Molly Shannon (Madame
Victoire) and Shirley Henderson (Madame Sophie).
The director of
photography is Lance Acord, who collaborated with Sofia Coppola on Lost in
Translation. Oscar(R) winner Milena Canonero is the costumes designer and KK
Barrett is the production designer.
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Articles
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Elle, march 2005
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Italian articles:
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Vogue Uomo,
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Vogue Donna, july 2005
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La Repubblica,
july 2005
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