Theron, Penn Films To Bow At TIFF 2007
Posted July 31, 2007 12:00 pm.
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The latest directorial effort by Sean Penn and a Charlize Theron film helmed by her boyfriend are amongst the new additions to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
Into The Wild, based on Jon Krakauer’s true account of a young man’s perilous decision to trade in a comfortable life for a penniless existence in the wilderness, stars Emile Hirsch (pictured), Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt and Vince Vaughn. Oscar-winner Penn is behind the camera for this project, which is due in theatres following the Sept. 6-15 festival.
Meanwhile, another Academy Award winner, Charlize Theron, will be in Toronto to promote the directorial debut of her boyfriend, actor Stuart Townsend. Battle in Seattle, starring Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, and Michelle Rodriguez, centers around the 1999 clash between demonstrators and police in that city during the WTO meeting.
Other titles at this year’s festival include director Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, filmed in western Canada and starring Brad Pitt, and Brit director Joe Wright’s Atonement, with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
The eagerly anticipated Bob Dylan-inspired film I’m Not There, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and Heath Ledger, will also be at the fest ahead of a November theatrical release and Canadian writer/director Paul Haggis will present In The Valley of Elah, about parents (Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon) trying to find their son after he returns from the Iraq war.
