Merrick here...
Robert Redford is looking to direct THE CONSPIRATOR, the story of Mary Surratt...
Surratt's is a compelling story. A Washington D.C. boardinghouse owner who sympathized with the Confederates, she was allegedly part of the plot to kill Lincoln, supplying Wilkes Booth and his accomplice David Herold weapons at her tavern after the assassin had shot the president at Ford's Theater.
Surratt's son John was also alleged to be part of the conspiracy. Mary Surratt was eventually convicted and hanged for conspiring to kill the president; her son went on the lam and eventually was put on trial but was never convicted, living until 1916.
The pic will also center on a young Union hero named Frederick Aiken who was appointed to defend Mary Surratt, and who comes to believe that the widow is innocent.
...reveals THR's Risky Business Blog HERE.
James D. Solomon (a writer and/or story editor and/or producer of THE PRACTICE and THE BRONX IS BURNING) is scripting.
