Maps to the Stars
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Maps to the Stars is an upcoming satire drama film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. The screenplay was written by Bruce Wagner who later wrote a book, Dead Stars, based on the Maps to the Stars script after the plans for making the film with Cronenberg fell through the first time.
This is the second consecutive collaboration between Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson (after Cosmopolis) and marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Prospero Pictures, who previously collaborated on A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis.
The film concerns the plight of two former child-stars, while commenting on the entertainment industry’s relationship with Western civilization as a whole.
Plot
Following the lives of Weiss family, an archetypical Hollywood dynasty, Dr. Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; his wife Cristina manages the career of their thirteen-year-old son, Benjie, a child star, who recently came out of a drug rehabilitation program, which he entered at the age of nine; their daughter Agatha has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was admitted for the treatment of criminal pyromania. After her release from the sanatorium, she befriends a limo driver and aspiring actor, Jerome Fontana. Havana Segrand, one of Stafford’s clients and an actress, has a unique new assistant. She wants to shoot a remake of the 1960s movie, starring her mother Clarice which made her famous. Clarice has been dead for sometime now and visions of her ghost come to haunt Havana at night.
Cast
- Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand
- John Cusack as Dr. Stafford Weiss
- Robert Pattinson as Jerome Fontana
- Mia Wasikowska as Agatha Weiss
- Carrie Fisher as Herself
- Olivia Williams as Cristina Weiss
- Sarah Gadon as Clarice Taggart
- Evan Bird as Benjie Weiss
- Ari Cohen as Jeb Berg
- Emilia McCarthy as Kayla
- Jayne Heitmeyer as Azita Wachtel
- Niamh Wilson as Sam
- Amanda Brugel as Victoria
- Justin Kelly as Rhett
- Joe Pingue as Arnold
- Kiara Glasco as Cammy
- Jonathan Watton as Sterl Carruth
- Clara Pasieka as Gretchen
- Donald Burda as Hank
- Christian Lloyd as Stu
- George Dawe as Jake Adams
- Jennifer Gibson as Starla Gent
- Chris Anton as Masseur Rusty
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