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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #62. Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s What Masie Knew

I haven’t been big on the Scott McGehee and David Siegel pairing since certain elements in 2001’s The Deep End, but this triage drama via the eyes of a seven year-old protagonist might do the trick – we still have faith in Julianne Moore and we’re of course curious to see how the core of a Henry James novel might still be relevant 100 years after publication.

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#62. What Maisie Knew

Director: Scott McGehee and David Siegel
Writer(s): Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne
Producers: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, William Teitler and Charles Weinstock
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: The film which is an adaptation of the Henry James novel is about Maisie, a six-year-old girl enmeshed in the bitter divorce of her mother (Moore), a rock and roll icon, and her father (Coogan), a charming but distracted art dealer. Skarsgård will play Moore’s new husband…(more)

Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan

List Worthy Reasons…: I haven’t been big on the Scott McGehee and David Siegel pairing since certain elements in 2001’s The Deep End, but this triage drama via the eyes of a seven year-old protagonist might do the trick – we still have faith in Julianne Moore and we’re of course curious to see how the core of a Henry James novel might still be relevant 100 years after publication.

Release Date/Status?: Well into post production, this might head over to the Toronto Film Festival for the kind of exposure which would allow for a pick-up for distribution.

 
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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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