After beautiful audiences and critics together with her Oscar-nominated portrayal of Princess Diana in 2021’s Spencer, Kristen Stewart is set to play one other legendary girl of the twentieth century: the author, thinker and activist Susan Sontag. Stewart will painting the well-known author in Sontag, which will likely be directed by documentary filmmaker Kirsten Johnson.

In line with ScreenDaily, which first reported the information, the movie will likely be primarily based on Ben Moser’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Sontag: Her Life, and can cowl 4 chapters within the eventful lifetime of Sontag, whose work proceed to be each celebrated and criticized immediately. Sontag, who handed away in 2004, was identified for important works like On Images (1977), in addition to fictional works like The Benefactor (1963), Demise Package (1967) and In America (2000). Her widely-read 1964 essay “Notes On Camp” skilled a revival in reputation after the Met Gala made camp its 2019 theme, prompting an examination of the time period. Famously a New Yorker, Sontag grew to become a feminist icon to some and an inspiration to feminine writers of the period. She additionally reported on the AIDS epidemic and criticism of the Vietnam Battle, which wasn’t all the time met with admiration. On the time of her passing, she had been in a relationship with photographer Annie Lebowitz for 15 years.

The venture is reportedly set to start out filming on the Berlin Movie Pageant, the place Stewart is jury president. “We’re utilizing Berlin as a second to kick off the venture and do documentary footage of Kristen as the pinnacle of the jury and speaking to her about how she’s going to develop into Sontag,” producer Gabrielle Tana stated. “It is going to be a drama, however with a documentary facet to it. Kirsten has a beautiful strategy to storytelling, and that is reflective of that, so she is going to use documentary in it.”

Tana additionally co-founded Brouhaha Leisure, the UK-Australian manufacturing firm that may make the movie. Along with directing, Johnson will cowrite the venture, which will likely be filmed this 12 months throughout California, New York, Paris and Sarajevo, with Lisa Kron. This will likely be Johnson’s first time directing a drama following her critically-acclaimed documentaries Cameraperson (2016) and Dick Johnson Is Lifeless (2020).

Along with Spencer, Stewart additionally took on one other high-profile biopic not too long ago as Jean Seberg in 2019’s Seberg, concerning the actress’ relationship with the Black Panther Get together. Exhibiting true vary, she additionally not too long ago starred in two science fiction horror movies: David Cronenberg’s 2022 movie Crimes of the Future, 2020’s Underwater, and the pleasant 2020 lesbian rom-com Happiest Season.