Kristen Stewart to Play Susan Sontag in New Biopic

Kristen Stewart will star as feminist writer Susan Sontag in Sontag, an upcoming biopic with a metafictional twist. Documentarian Kirsten Johnson will direct. Screen Daily reports that the film will actually begin filming at this month's Berlin International Film Festival, where Stewart heads this year's international jury, and will open with documentary footage of the actor discussing the role before moving on to chronicle the events of Sontag's life.

Says producer Gabrielle Tana, "It will be a drama, but with a documentary aspect to it. Kirsten has a wonderful approach to storytelling, and this is reflective of that, so she will use documentary in it." It will be Stewart's latest role as a prominent woman, having played Jean Seberg in Seberg and Princess Diana in Spencer in recent years; she received an Oscar nomination for the latter.

COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Sontag, who died in 2004, was a prolific essayist, novelist, and cultural critic; she opposed the Vietnam War, quantified the concept of camp in her essay Notes on "Camp", and broke down the barriers between criticism of so-called "high" and "low" culture.

Johnson began her career as a documentary cinematographer, shooting films like the Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour and the genocide chronicle Darfur Now. She has since directed two documentaries of her own; the autobiographical Cameraperson, and Dick Johnson is Dead, a blackly comic meditation on her father's decline and death. Sontag will be her first narrative feature.

Sontag will shoot this year in Berlin, California, Paris, New York, and Sarajevo. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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