Stone taking on 'Forest'
Eslinger-helmed project 'Man' looking for financing
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In the as-yet-unfinanced pic, Stone is attached to play an unhappily married woman who shoplifts to relieve her suffering. The woman is one of four sad, middle-class characters living in a small town in the Midwest.
Eslinger's first pic, "Madness and Genius," drew critical acclaim and a William Morris Agency contract for the then 22-year-old novice helmer when it unspooled at the Toronto Film Festival in 2003.
New effort is one of 18 projects featured in the Cannes Film Festival's "Atelier du Cinema" line-up of pics looking for coin. It has also been selected for the Sundance Institute's filmmakers lab next month.
In a separate project initiated by Stone, also repped by William Morris, Eslinger, is penning a script for the actress to direct. Eslinger said the screenplay's scientific theme has echoes of his "Madness and Genius."
Made with helmer's savings of $19,000, "Genius" is about a student who blackmails his teacher in order to steal a scientific discovery and claim it as his own -- "Stanley Kubrick meets 'Good Will Hunting,'" in the helmer's words.
Eslinger said "It will be a challenge for her to play a Midwestern housewife."
