Kristen Stewart kicked off the 12 months along with her first Oscar nomination and is bookending it by casting the lead for her long-gestating characteristic directorial debut. In accordance with Deadline, Imogen Poots will topline “The Chronology of Water,” Stewart’s adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Chronology of Water.”
Revealed in 2011, Yuknavitch’s award-winning memoir tackles her bisexuality, motherhood, abuse, and dependancy. It tells the story of a “younger lady [who] finds her voice by way of the written phrase and her salvation as a swimmer — finally changing into a triumphant trainer, mom and a singular fashionable author. A survivor’s story and a sexually abrasive and sincere coming of age, the movie is a bodily reminiscence wash of Yuknavitch’s internal life,” per the supply.
Stewart mentioned the mission on the 2018 Cannes Movie Competition, the place she described Yuknavitch as being “in [her] blood.” The “Twilight” breakout emphasised, “I’m going to put in writing the most effective fucking feminine position. I’m going to put in writing a job that I need so badly however that I’m not going to play.” She co-wrote the movie’s script with Andy Mingo.
In a brand new assertion, Steward mentioned that the memoir “honors corporeal expertise, radically. To make that have bodily feels important to me and what this impulse means … is that it completely have to be a movie,” she defined. She added that “Poots will carry this film and the staggering weight of Lidia’s life. She will maintain it. I’m past fortunate to have her.”
Stewart beforehand helmed the 2017 brief “Come Swim.” She’s re-teaming with the banner behind the mission, Scott Free, for “The Chronology of Water.”
Earlier this 12 months Stewart acquired an Oscar nod for her portrayal of Princess Diana in “Spencer.” She was final seen in “Crimes of the Future,” a sci-fi that premiered at Cannes this 12 months.
“The Father,” “Black Christmas,” and “Inexperienced Room” are amongst Poots’ credit.
