It’s been a few years since we’ve seen Robin Wright Penn in anything… wait, I’m sorry, it’s just Robin Wright now. But today we have a new trailer for the conspiracy thriller appropriately titled THE CONSPIRATOR. Perhaps even more exciting than the presence of Wright is the movie being directed by Robert Redford, who was last behind the camera in 2007 with LIONS FOR LAMBS. The film stars James McAvoy (soon to be seen in X-MEN FIRST CLASS), Alexis Bledel (SIN CITY), Justin Long (GOING THE DISTANCE), Evan Rachel Wood (THE WRESTLER), Robin Wright, Norman Reedus (THE BOONDOCK SAINTS movies), the great Kevin Kline (NO STRINGS ATTACHED), the also great Tom Wilkinson (THE GREEN HORNET), and Danny Huston (CLASH OF THE TITANS). Check out the trailer below and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
The synopsis (from IMDB): In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.
Great article on the making of the film here.
THE CONSPIRATOR opens April 15, 2011
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
This looks GREAT! One of my favorite nonfiction books, “Manhunt” by James Swanson, deals with this very subject. Also, it’s nice to see Alexis Bledel in something. I’ve missed her.
I know, we need more movies like this… more meaningful movies.