Award-winning filmmaker Christina Choe is set to make her feature directorial debut. She’ll helm “Nancy,” a psychological drama starring “Bloodline’s” Andrea Riseborough, Variety reports.
Choe also penned the script for the film, which centers on a serial imposter (Riseborough) “who becomes perilously close to losing her entire identity — and the only person who’s ever truly loved her — when her elaborate lies inevitably unravel,” according to Variety’s synopsis.
“Nancy’s” protagonist offers an alternative to female characters whose worth comes from their “likability.” “Though the landscape of TV and cinema is full of male anti-hero characters that are beloved and entertaining, it is still rare to find female anti-hero characters,” Choe wrote on the film’s crowdfunding page. “I believe the time is ripe for a compelling, complex, morally ambiguous female version of Travis Bickle, Walter White, Tony Soprano, etc.”
We’re totally on board with Choe’s thinking, and while the storyline of “Nancy” sounds intriguing, what’s equally exciting about the project is that the crew for the film is comprised of all-female department heads. Principal photography has already kicked off in upstate New York.
J. Smith-Cameron (“Rectify”), Ann Dowd (“Good Behavior”), John Leguizamo (“Sisters”), and Steve Buscemi (“Horace and Pete”) co-star.
Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, and Riseborough are producing. Variety writes that “‘Nancy’ is a Mental Pictures, Mother Sucker, and Eon Productions movie, in association with Gamechanger Films.” Barbara Broccoli (the “James Bond” franchise) and Eon’s Michael G. Wilson are serving as co-executive producers alongside Gamechanger’s Mynette Louie.
Choe won the Slamdance Film Festival grand jury award in 2012 for her short “I Am John Wayne.” Her shorts have screened at fests such as Telluride and SXSW, and she completed a year-long directing fellowship with HBO.
Riseborough’s most recent credit is “Nocturnal Animals,” and she’ll appear in the upcoming biopic “Battle of the Sexes” with Emma Stone and Steve Carell.
