Wes Bentley and Brit Marling Join The Green Blade Rises

Wes Bentley joins The Green Blade Rises
Wes Bentley joins The Green Blade Rises
Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games) and Brit Marling (Another Earth) have joined The Green Blade Rises, the feature film about Abraham Lincoln's formative years, with a cast that also includes Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and Jason Clarke (Public Enemies), who play Lincoln's step-mother and father. Wes Bentley will play the future President's first teacher and Brit Marling will play Nancy, his biological mother who withstood the challenges of pioneer life.

The Green Blade Rises tells the untold story of the youth of America's greatest hero. It chronicles the hardships that shaped him, including abandonment by his father in the harsh winter wilderness, the tragedy that marked him forever and the two women who guided him to immortality, putting him on the path to becoming one of the most influential Presidents in United States history.

The Green Blade Rises is the directorial debut of AJ Edwards, who also wrote the original screenplay, and is produced by Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), Nicolas Gonda (The Tree of Life) and Charley Beil (To the Wonder) with Joseph Krigsfeld, Jason Krigsfeld and Suzanne Deal Booth as executive producers and Jake DeVito is co-producer. AJ Edwards has worked with Terrence Malick on three of his films including To the Wonder, The Tree of Life and The New World. He got his start as an editorial intern on Malick's The New World and served as the editor on his most recent film To the Wonder.

Margery Simkin (Avatar) is the Casting Director and the Production Designer is Caroline Hanania (Serendipity). Hank Corwin (The Tree of Life) is the film's Editor. Christopher Tandon (Kill Bill Vol. 1) is the Art Director and Lisa Tomczeszyn (X-Men: The Last Stand) serves as the Costume Designer. The music in The Green Blade Rises is composed by Zbigniew Preisner (The Secret Garden).

The Green Blade Rises is being produced in association with Brothers K.

The Green Blade Rises comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Diane Kruger, Jason Clarke, Wes Bentley, Brit Marling.


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Comments (8)

  1. THE JOKER

    @Number1Wolverine You better... ;)

    8 months agoby @mcleve02Flag

  2. BERSERKER

    @SherlockHolmes2009@mcleve02 - I agree with the both of you :).

    8 months agoby @Number1WolverineFlag

  3. THE JOKER

    @SherlockHolmes2009 Yeah, everything else is just milking a cow...

    8 months agoby @mcleve02Flag

  4. SherlockHolmes2009

    @mcleve02@Number1Wolverine Exactly, Spieldbergs is my #1 I care about cuz of that sure-to-be Oscar performance from Daniel Day Lewis

    8 months agoby @SherlockHolmes2009Flag

  5. THE JOKER

    @SherlockHolmes2009 There is just too much Lincoln right now... Spielberg is the only one I care about

    8 months agoby @mcleve02Flag

  6. BERSERKER

    @SherlockHolmes2009 - I know right, what is going on. Three Abraham movies are already coming out now this :(.

    8 months agoby @Number1WolverineFlag

  7. SherlockHolmes2009

    Everyones trying to jump on the Lincoln bandwagon

    8 months agoby @SherlockHolmes2009Flag

  8. Dan

    He should have kept his crazy Hunger Games beard. I would have, at least :P

    8 months agoby @dan1Flag

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