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EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars prima Sasha Pieterse is group to lead psychological thriller Rosemary, which will recount nan tragic communicative of Rosemary Kennedy “from her perspective”.
Kennedy was nan sister of President John F Kennedy and senators Robert F and Ted Kennedy. As a child, she reportedly exhibited developmental delays and successful her young big years is said to person developed behavioural issues. In response, family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr arranged a lobotomy connected her erstwhile she was 23 years old, a process which near her permanently incapacitated. She spent astir of nan remainder of her life being cared for astatine St. Coletta, an institution successful Wisconsin, and she was isolated from family and siblings for agelong periods. Kennedy died from earthy causes successful 2005 aged 86.
Mike Medavoy, nan Hollywood vet known for movies including Black Swan and Shutter Island, is helping shepherd nan film, which will beryllium written and directed by Cory Todd Hughes and Adrian Speckert, whose scripts to day person included Under Fire, starring Dylan Sprouse, and Foster, starring Ron Perlman.
Emanuele Moretti (Bucking Fastard) and The Motus Studios will nutrient pinch Nick Medavoy (The Image Of You) and Kaan Karahan (Winter Spring Summer aliases Fall); Hughes, Speckert and Mike Medavoy are serving arsenic executive producers. Motus Studios will grip world sales.
According to nan team, nan contained thriller will “dramatize Rosemary Kennedy’s struggle pinch intelligence health, nan devastating determination by her father, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., to taxable her to a lobotomy astatine property 23, and nan long–lasting consequences of that choice.”
The movie is based connected nan All That’s Interesting article ‘Rosemary Kennedy, JFK’s Sister Who Was Lobotomized And Locked Away’.
“This movie takes a communicative that has agelong lived successful nan shadows of history and places Rosemary astatine nan center, not arsenic a footnote successful a governmental dynasty, but arsenic a young female pinch hopes, fears, and a sound that was ne'er genuinely heard,” Mike Medavoy said.
Pieterse said of nan role: “Rosemary’s communicative has been told successful fragments. What drew maine to this task is really it explores her arsenic a person, not a symbol, but a afloat realized quality being pinch dreams and vulnerabilities.”
Hughes and Speckert added: “This isn’t conscionable a humanities biopic. It’s a psychological travel told done Rosemary’s eyes, 1 that challenges nan assemblage to reckon pinch really we specify agency, dignity, and identity.”
Todd Hughes and Speckert are separately collaborating pinch Pieterse connected an adjustment of celebrated American novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon’s upcoming municipality imagination book bid Infernal Affairs.
Pieterse is champion known for portraying Alison DiLaurentis successful nan Freeform series Pretty Little Liars and its spinoff Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. The former Dancing With The Stars contestant besides starred successful 2024 movie The Image Of You with Parker Young and Mira Sorvino, a movie which was exec-produced by Karahan and associate-produced by Nick Medavoy.
