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EXCLUSIVE: Julie Taymor is attached to direct Gun Love, an adaptation of the Jennifer Clement novel. Babylon Berlin‘s Liv Lisa Fries is attached to play the role of Margot in the ensemble cast. Marissa Kate Goodhill (Come Away) wrote the script. Nick Wechsler and Chockstone Pictures partners Steve Schwartz and Paula…

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Julie Taymor is a director who always swings for the fences, whether a splendid biopic of Frida Khalo or a vivid reimagining of The Lion King for Broadway. Changing Prospero from male to female in her adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is another example, if not quite as successful, but now her unconventional and…

“The truth will set you free…but first it will piss you off,” says Julianne Moore as iconic feminist Gloria Steinem in the new trailer for Julie Taymor’s biopic The Glorias, about the legendary disruptor that helped lead the charge in activism and launched a revolutionary women's movement that has impacted…

EXCLUSIVE: The Glorias is shifting from a theatrical release and heading straight to Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Julie Taymor, the non-traditional film chronicling the life of iconic activist Gloria Steinem is set to stream exclusively on Prime Video in U.S. and Canada and be available for purchase on all…

The film The Glorias isn’t a traditional biopic, but it certainly explores the trailblazing life of feminist icon Gloria Steinem in a way that only visionary director Julia Taymor can. “I never had in my mind to do a film about Gloria Steinem until I read [her] book My Life on the Road,” said Taymor when she visited…

On Saturday at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Carrie Mae Weems moderated a conversation between artists in the industry who have pushed the envelope when it comes to storytelling and representation. The panelists each had films at Sundance including Lin-Manuel Miranda (Siempre, Luis, We Are Freestyle Love…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about The Glorias. During Sundance’s “Power of Story: Just Art” The Glorias director Julie Taymor joined Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ai Weiwei, Kerry Washington and moderator Carrie Mae Weems on a panel to discuss how artists push boundaries. While talking about her film, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: Lorraine Toussaint, who currently stars in AMC’s Into the Badlands, has been cast as the feminist, civil rights advocate and activist Flo Kennedy in the upcoming biopic on iconic women’s rights leader Gloria Steinem which is being directed by Julie Taymor. The Glorias stars Julianne Moore and Alicia…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Timothy Hutton has joined Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem feature The Glorias: A Life on the Road. He will play the role of Leo Steinem, Gloria’s father. Julianne Moore plays Steinem, while Alicia Vikander will play the feminist icon at ages 20-40. The movie, based on Steinem's memoir, follows…

EXCLUSIVE: Janelle Monáe has come aboard The Glorias: A Life on the Road, the Gloria Steinem biopic that has Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander playing the feminist and social-political activist at various stages of her life. Julie Taymor is directing the film which is based on Steinem's memoir. This seems like a…

EXCLUSIVE: Lulu Wilson, who was recently seen in Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and HBO’s Sharp Objects, has been tapped to play a young Gloria Steinem in the Julie Taymor-directed biopic, The Glorias: A Life On The Road. Based on Steinem's memoir of the same title, the pic has Julianne Moore playing Steinem as…