While we await the release of director Anton Corbijn‘s A Most Wanted Man, which Roadside Attractions will release later this year, today we get a first look at Corbijn’s next film, Life starring Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson as actor James Dean and Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock respectively.
The story follows Stock as he and Dean travel the country, with the story largely centering on Stock as he slowly emerges from a depression due to feelings of regret as an estranged parent to his son. Ben Kingsley co-stars.
Here’s the official synopsis
Inspired by the true story of a friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and actor James Dean (DeHaan) when Stock was commissioned to photograph the actor for Life magazine in 1955.
Stock was 26 and old before his time, when into his buttoned-down world came fledgling star James Dean, a free spirit who would change popular culture from suits to jeans and from matinee idols to teenage heartthrobs. The assignment, which took the pair on a photographic journey across the US, from LA to New York and on to Indiana would change Stock’s life and provide the world with some of the most iconic images of the age.
This is a title that seems like a strong candidate for a later, fall festival premiere, either in Venice or Toronto.
