New Shot of John Wilkes Booth from 'The Conspirator'

Here's a new image of Toby Kebbell as John Wilkes Booth in the new Robert Redford film, The Conspirator. It's not about Booth, though you can't tell the story without him; instead, it concerns the trial of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) and herappointed attorney, Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy). A few new photos have surfaced at the official production company website for The Conspirator, The American Film Company. It's a unique idea: AFC wants to make not only historically accurate films - take that, dramatic license! - but also films that bring to light some lesser-known moments in American history. This one qualifies, since more people would think just of Lincoln and Booth, but Lincoln's not a big factor in this movie. You will see Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Danny Huston, Justin Long, and Alexis Bledel, however, so The Conspirator means business. Below is the official synopsis:

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are then arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the 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. As the trial unfolds, 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. A suspenseful thriller with action throughout, The Conspirator tells a powerful and haunting story about America then and now."

The company has no release date for the film yet, but that would require a distributor, and I don't believe AFC is at that point yet. Shouldn't be a problem, though.

Comments

[LC]

This looks like a very interesting film with lots of great stars in McAvoy, Wright, Kevin Kline and Tom Wilkerson plus several up and coming young actors. I hope it finds a distributor and is released soon.

[J.Bradley]

If distributors would chicken out on this, just like they did for "Creation", maybe HBO will pick it up. It seems like various projects since the 90's have hovered around this subject - David Lynch was connected to one once and there was the TV movie on one of the Turner networks - I can't remeber the title, wasn't historically accurate, but I liked it. Lance Hennriksen was Lincoln and "Joel" from TV's "Northern Exposure" was Booth.

[SEAN]

looks brilliant

Redford never dissapoints, one of the few old school Hollywood guys left around

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