'Maps To The Stars': The Movie That Took 20 Years To Write [Trailer + Pictures]
Ok, so David Cronenberg's latest movie Maps to the Stars - which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May - will more than likely pull in a sizable teenage audience, given it stars Twlight's very own Robert Pattinson. Though without making too many assumptions, a chunk of those paying their $20 may have thought better of it by the end of the satirical drama, which delves into the celebrity-obsessed culture that made Pattinson's vampire franchise a global hit.
It's written by Bruce Wagner, the tattooed Ambulance driver turned novelist who Cronenberg has compared to James Joyce. "He's unafraid to express the moment . to go to the darkest places. Hollywood is his Dublin," he told the Los Angeles Times, adding that Wagner is "a kind of star on the red carpet. He's not a typical writer. He's comfortable with cameras and microphones.
Maps to the Stars - in which Pattinson appears alongside Julianne Moore, John Cusack and Mia Wasikowska - tells the story of a Hollywood family on the verge of implosion. Cusack plays Stafford Weiss, a famed TV self-help therapist whose 'Hour of Personal Power' has brought him A-list celebrity status. Wasikowska is the pyromaniac estranged daughter of Weiss, while Pattinson plays Jerome Fontana, a limo driver and struggling actor who wants to be a successful screenwriter and who is inspired by one Mr Bruce Wagner.
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Quite how this one is going to go down come its September 26 release date is unclear - it received mixed reviews at Cannes (Peter Bradshaw called it "A gripping and exquisitely horrible movie about contemporary Hollywood" while Drew McWeeney said "I don't get it. I look at these images in this film, and I can't imagine this is what anyone had in mind")
Mia Wasikowska [L] and Julianne Moore [R] in 'Maps to the Stars'
Julianne Moore in 'Maps to the Stars'
Mia Wasikowska, with a black glove on, in 'Maps to the Stars'