#56. Innocence
Director: Hilary Brougher
Writer: Tristine Skyler
Producers: Killer Films’ Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon
Distributor: Rights Available
The Gist: An adaptation of Jane Mendelsohn’s dark coming-of-age novel, this is about a schoolgirl’s loss of innocence…(more)
Cast: Abigail Breslin and Chloë Sevigny
List Worthy Reasons…: Among the several contemporary indie vampire flicks in this top 100 list (more to come in 2013 with Jim Jarmusch interested in the genre), it is this coming-of-ager that we feel holds the most promise as the form, from the book description, is reminiscent of some of those plot-twisting Spanish thriller titles. The Killer FIlms folks usually don’t do horror but instead the human condition, and that the one helming the pic is Stephanie Daley‘s Brougher – who gave us a strong, underappreciated directing debut which did feature some rather strong female performances means that with a better production value we see this female filmmaker making huge strides.
Release Date/Status?: Other than Julianne Moore dropping out of the project and being replaced by Chloë Sevigny, no word on the status of this production has been given since October. We imagine shooting is expected to begin anytime now, but they need to round out the casting and tech crew.
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