The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Jessica Chastain is in talks to star in Woman Walks Ahead, which is being directed by Susanna White (Generation Kill) from a script by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke).
The film will see Chastain as Caroline Weldon, “a 19th-century Brooklyn artist and activist who moved to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull fight to keep the land for his people. She would write letters to the federal government on behalf of Sitting Bull and eventually lived on the land with her teenage son for several years, even though she was vilified by the press, which called her ‘Sitting Bull’s white squaw.'”
Chastain has several films on the horizon, with The Zookeeper’s Wife, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Miss Sloane and The Death and Life of John F. Donovan all slated to arrive this year.
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Originally published February 5, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
