James Mangold's next film follows the bizarre true-life journey of American heiress Patty Hearst
Mangold's 'Patty Hearst' biopic joins All the Money in the World, The Post, and Tarantino's Untitled #9 chronicling a string of high profile events during the 1970's.
Variety first broke the news that the director behind 20th Century Fox's neo-noir western Logan will oversee Fox 2000's latest biopic. Actress, Elle Fanning (The Beguiled) is in talks to play Patty Hearst, the controversial and famed granddaughter of American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in a bizarre journey that follows Hearst’s abduction-to her-eventual membership of the counterculture terrorist organization who originally kidnapped her.
Fox 2000's film is based on Jeffrey Toobin's recently published book "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst", which tells the crazy true-life events behind Patty Hearst's abduction as a 19-year old student at Cal-Berkeley to her alleged assimilation into the left-wing terrorist group in 1974. Fans of 2016's television drama American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson may recognize Toobin's work of which FX's Emmy-winning series was based on "The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson".
Mangold's biopic will look to keep a nice string of films going ever since 2005's Oscar-winning Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (Knight and Day is largely debatable in said "string"). And if you needed additional reason for optimism (aside from Mangold) the screenwriting duo who adapted Toobin's American Crime Story - Larry Karaszewski & Scott Alexander - will bring Hearst's true-life journey to the big screen.
Sound like a winner?
