A promising young Hillary Rodham, commencing her law career
spectacularly as the youngest lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee
to impeach Nixon, but struggling with her loneliness for her
boyfriend, who was teaching law in Arkansas, will be the subject of a
film set to release in 2016. While we all know how this love story
resolves itself, one thing is certain. Hillary fans will flock to see
it. The story inundated political and entertainment news feeds today. I hope they choose Anna Camp to play Hillary. She would be perfect!
James Ponsoldt is attached to direct a biopic of Hillary Clinton.
Ponsoldt, who directed Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul in last year's Smashed, has been "pencilled in" to direct Rodham, according to The Wrap.
Penned by Young Il Kim, the biopic will focus on rising star Hillary
Rodham and her early career as a young attorney on the House Judiciary
Committee, during the Watergate scandal.
According to a
synopsis, her "unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, a former boyfriend
who now teaches law in Arkansas" will also be central to the story.
The 'Smashed' helmer is attached to direct 'Rodham', the film about Hillary Clinton's early years from Kim Young Il's screenplay.
"Smashed" and "The Spectacular Now" director James Ponsoldt is confirmed to serve behind the lens for "Rodham",
a tale of the early years of former First Lady of the United States
Hillary Clinton. The indie film is based on Kim Young Il's script, which
was ranked fourth on 2012 Black List.
Set during the height of the Watergate scandal, "Rodham" centers on
Hillary Rodham, the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary
Committee to Impeach Nixon, who finds herself forced to choose between a
destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for former
boyfriend Bill Clinton, who is teaching law in Arkansas.
Talk about a hot button project.
With a presidential run in 2016 as likely as the sky still being blue
tomorrow morning, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be one of the most
important figures in American politics for the next handful of years,
and now, she’s about to be fodder for a biopic.
The Wrap is reporting that James Ponsoldt, best known for the films Smashed and the breathtaking The Spectacular Now, is set to direct Rodham,
based on a Black List script from writer Young Il Kim. The film will
follow the story of Clinton during her time in school, and also happens
to deal with her romance with one Bill Clinton. Here’s the synopsis:
During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary
Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee
to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a
destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill
Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.
James Ponsoldt has a knack for getting the best out of
Hollywood's most talented young actresses, and he could turn the trick
again with "Rodham." According to TheWrap, Ponsoldt -- who directed "Smashed" and the upcoming "The Spectacular Now" -- has signed on to make a new biopic about Hillary Clinton.
"[She was] torn between her personal desires and her professional
ambition -- both literally pulled her thousands of miles apart, because
Bill did not want to leave Arkansas, and she did not want to leave
Washington, D.C.," Kim said about that time in Hillary's life. Read more >>>>
Release of much-anticipated Young Il Kim-scripted film Rodham to tie in with 2016 US presidential primaries
Ben Child guardian.co.uk,
Rightwing US politicians who last year campaigned against the release of the drama Zero Dark Thirty for fear it could influence the outcome of the 2012 presidential election may have a new target in their sights.
Deadline reports that a biopic about the early life of Hillary Clinton – entitled Rodham – is being primed to tie in with its subject's mooted presidential run in 2016.
Screenwriter Young Il Kim's drama, which was included on the 2012 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays,
centres on the future first lady and US secretary of state as she
vacillates between her legal career and the attentions of a charming
young suitor from Arkansas in the 1970s.
Its synopsis reads: "During the
height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the
youngest lawyer chosen for the house judiciary committee to impeach
Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined
path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas." Read more >>>>
