Amazon Studios is dating Benedict Andrews’ Jean Seberg biopic “Seberg,” starring Kristen Stewart as the Hollywood actress turned political target of the title, for award season prime time on December 13.
(Deadline has the scoop.)Poorly reviewed out of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Andrews’ true-to-life drama about Seberg’s frantic descent into paranoia after becoming the target of an FBI counter-intelligence probe in the late 1960s faces an uphill box-office climb during the noisy awards fray; Amazon is more likely branding the title for eventual Prime availability.“Seberg” is inspired by the real events about the French New Wave ingénue and icon discovered by Otto Preminger (who tortured her on the set of 1957’s “Saint Joan” and 1958’s “Bonjour Tristesse”) and Jean-Luc Godard (1960’s earth-shaking “Breathless”).
Andrews’ film, from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (scribes behind 2010’s Halle Berry-starrer “Frankie and
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