Robert Redford is directing this filmabout the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Synopsis from (IMDb):In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt: her own son.
Starring:Robin Wright (Mary Surratt)
James McAvoy (Frederick Aiken, man assigned to defend Surratt)
Alexis Bledel ( Aiken’s wife, Sarah Weston)
Evan Rachel Wood (Surrat's daughter, Anna)
Tom Wilkinson (Reverdy Johnson, U.S. senator is the mentor to the young lawyer)
Justin Long (Aiken's best friend)
Toby Kebbell (John Wilkes Booth)
Kevin Kline (Lincoln’s War Secretary Edwin Stanton)
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Day One of shooting on the set of The Conspirator
Clip with James McAvoy and Alexis Bledel
OOh, I can't wait to see this!!
ReplyDeleteFascinating story!
ReplyDeleteIt does sound interesting doesn't it? The only name that I ever heard mentioned was John Wilkes Booth. I didn't realize that others were involved.
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