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Dystopia Once Moore: Freundlich Teams with Wife and Kristen Stewart on ‘Backwoods’

You can now refer to Julianne Moore as cinema’s Queen of Dystopia. After taking some pretty rough turns in Children of Men and Blindness, she’ll now pair with Kirsten Stewart on hubby Bart Freundlich’s Backwoods, which should not be confused as a U.S remake of Koldo Serra’s The Backwoods starring Gary Oldman.

You can now refer to Julianne Moore as cinema’s Queen of Dystopia. After taking some pretty rough turns in Children of Men and Blindness, she’ll now pair with Kirsten Stewart on hubby Bart Freundlich’s Backwoods, which should not be confused as a U.S remake of Koldo Serra’s The Backwoods starring Gary Oldman.

THR’s blog mentions that this concerns the end of the world – nothing close to the subject matters that we’d find in Freundlich’s filmography. He last directed The Rebound (Rom Com starring Catherine Zeta-Jones) which was filmed in 2009 and has failed to find distribution. Backwoods sounds like an ensemble pic and would start shooting sometime during the summer.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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