Hagar Goes Hollywood

How did I miss this?

Director Kari Skogland takes the reins for a Buffalo Gals Pictures production starring Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn as author Margaret Laurence’s much lauded heroine Hagar Shipley.

The Hollywood Reporter called Skogland “one of the 10 directors to watch” in 2002, after the release of Liberty Stands Still, a film the Winnipeg-based filmmaker wrote and directed.

Even if Skogland weren’t quite so highly recommended, or Burstyn quite so esteemed, I’d still be on the edge of my seat for a film re-telling of The Stone Angel, one of my favorite books ev-ah.

IMDB says the film is complete and the Telefilm Canada Web site says The Stone Angel will be distributed by Alliance Atlantis, but it doesn’t tell us when. Expect more details as they become available.