Kristen Stewart will star as Susan Sontag, an American author, philosopher and political activist, in the biopic ‘Sontag’.
Kirsten Johnson (‘Cameraperson,’ ‘Citizenfour’) directed and co-wrote by Lisa Kron and produced by Brouhaha Entertainment, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography ‘Sontag: Her Life’ by Benjamin Moser. Sontag: Her Life’, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography by Benjamin Moser, follows four chapters in the turbulent life of Sontag, a famous and controversial intellectual of the 20th century.
Sontag is known for her widely influential critical works on human rights, social justice, the AIDS epidemic, and anti-war, authored ‘Against Interpretation,’ ‘On Photography,’ ‘Illness as Metaphor,’ and ‘In America,’ and she has also Controversial for making statements about white Western civilization, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and allegations of plagiarism.
