Warning: Spoilers for The Society ahead!
Netflix's The Society is 10 episodes long, and you best believe that the sci-fi thriller makes good use of each entry by packing in as many mysteries as possible. In addition to the biggest question that stretches out over the entirety of the season - what happened to the original town that the high schoolers once knew, and where are their parents? - a major thread introduced in the show's third episode revolves around a tragic question: who killed Cassandra?
To understand who shot her after the prom, first we have to break down who Cassandra (Legion's Rachel Keller) represented in the community of angst-ridden teenagers who find themselves living in an alternate universe (or wherever they are) following a field trip gone wrong. She is first introduced as the straight-laced, slightly uptight, rule-following older sister of Allie (Blockers' Kathryn Newton) and is...
Netflix's The Society is 10 episodes long, and you best believe that the sci-fi thriller makes good use of each entry by packing in as many mysteries as possible. In addition to the biggest question that stretches out over the entirety of the season - what happened to the original town that the high schoolers once knew, and where are their parents? - a major thread introduced in the show's third episode revolves around a tragic question: who killed Cassandra?
To understand who shot her after the prom, first we have to break down who Cassandra (Legion's Rachel Keller) represented in the community of angst-ridden teenagers who find themselves living in an alternate universe (or wherever they are) following a field trip gone wrong. She is first introduced as the straight-laced, slightly uptight, rule-following older sister of Allie (Blockers' Kathryn Newton) and is...
- 5/17/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Sneak Peek more new images and footage from the upcoming high school teen comedy "The Duff", based on the novel by Kody Keplinger, starring Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Bianca A. Santos, Allison Janney, Ken Jeong, Romany Malco, Skyler Samuels, Chris Wylde, Mahaley Manning, Nick Eversman, Seth Meriwether, Gabriela Fraile, Danielle Lyn and Rebecca Weil:
"...high school senior 'Bianca' (Whitman) is devastated when she learns she is labeled the 'Duff' ('designated ugly fat friend') to her prettier friends.
"Soon after, she makes a plan to turn her social status around by overthrowing 'Madison' (Thorne)...
"...the most popular girl in school..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Duff"...
"...high school senior 'Bianca' (Whitman) is devastated when she learns she is labeled the 'Duff' ('designated ugly fat friend') to her prettier friends.
"Soon after, she makes a plan to turn her social status around by overthrowing 'Madison' (Thorne)...
"...the most popular girl in school..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Duff"...
- 1/28/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek new banner images and footage from the high school teen comedy "The Duff", based on the novel by Kody Keplinger, starring Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Bianca A. Santos, Allison Janney, Ken Jeong, Romany Malco, Skyler Samuels, Chris Wylde, Mahaley Manning, Nick Eversman, Seth Meriwether, Gabriela Fraile, Danielle Lyn and Rebecca Weil:
"...high school senior 'Bianca' (Whitman) is devastated when she learns she is labeled the 'Duff' ('designated ugly fat friend') to her prettier friends.
"Soon after, she makes a plan to turn her social status around by overthrowing 'Madison' (Thorne), the most popular girl in school..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Duff"...
"...high school senior 'Bianca' (Whitman) is devastated when she learns she is labeled the 'Duff' ('designated ugly fat friend') to her prettier friends.
"Soon after, she makes a plan to turn her social status around by overthrowing 'Madison' (Thorne), the most popular girl in school..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Duff"...
- 1/15/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
★★☆☆☆Based on the previously well-documented true story of the West Memphis Three, Canadian director Atom Egoyan's Devil's Knot (2013) attempts to dramatise Mara Leveritt's novelisation of the same name. The result is a melodramatic, calculable and subsequently dull procedural that makes you baffled by its inertness. When three boys are found brutally murdered in an area ominously known as the "Devil's Den", locals - including one of the boys' mother's Pam Hobbs (Reese Witherspoon) - are left paralysed. Three teenagers, Damien (James Hamrick), Jessie (Kristopher Higgins) and Jason (Seth Meriwether), are soon charged as accused members of this sinister satanic cult.
- 6/18/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The 1993 murders of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, has been explored time and time again, in documentaries like HBO’s Paradise Lost trilogy and Peter Jackson’s West of Memphis, but pop culture can’t seem to leave the sensational case alone. The question of whether Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. were actually guilty of the savage crimes seems to destined never to be definitively answered, though most films about the case have emphasized how tenuous links between the trio and the murders actually were.
Devil’s Knot, Atom Egoyan’s dramatization of the investigation and subsequent trials, features bankable Hollywood stars like Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, and that star power makes this retelling more likely to appeal to the masses than the documentary coverage. That’s why it’s so unfortunate that Egoyan never manages to do right by his powerful source material.
Devil’s Knot, Atom Egoyan’s dramatization of the investigation and subsequent trials, features bankable Hollywood stars like Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, and that star power makes this retelling more likely to appeal to the masses than the documentary coverage. That’s why it’s so unfortunate that Egoyan never manages to do right by his powerful source material.
- 5/10/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
The West Memphis Three case was the subject of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s much-lauded Paradise Lost trilogy (1996, 2000, 2011), as well as Amy Berg’s 2012 West of Memphis. Each documentary chronicled the ongoing evolution of a uniquely American tragedy: the wrongful convictions of three teenage outcasts in the grotesque slayings of three eight-year-olds in West Memphis, Ark on May 5th, 1993. In Devil’s Knot, Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s fictionalized retelling of the events, the teenagers who stand accused — Jason Baldwin (Seth Meriwether), Damien Echols (James Hamrick), and Jessie Misskelley Jr. (Kris Higgins) — are clearly railroaded by local law […]...
- 5/9/2014
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The West Memphis Three case was the subject of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s much-lauded Paradise Lost trilogy (1996, 2000, 2011), as well as Amy Berg’s 2012 West of Memphis. Each documentary chronicled the ongoing evolution of a uniquely American tragedy: the wrongful convictions of three teenage outcasts in the grotesque slayings of three eight-year-olds in West Memphis, Ark on May 5th, 1993. In Devil’s Knot, Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s fictionalized retelling of the events, the teenagers who stand accused — Jason Baldwin (Seth Meriwether), Damien Echols (James Hamrick), and Jessie Misskelley Jr. (Kris Higgins) — are clearly railroaded by local law […]...
- 5/9/2014
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Title: Devil’s Knot Director: Atom Egoyan Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Stephen Moyer, Elias Koteas, Burce Greenwood, Kevin Durand, James Hamrick, Kristopher Higgins, Seth Meriwether Running time: 1 hr 54 min; Unrated; In theaters 05.09.14 and VOD Director Atom Egoyan brings us a dramatization of the ordeal involving The West Memphis Three that took place in 1993. The case about three 8 year old boys who were found nude, hogtied and drowned in a creek bed in Robin Hood Hills, Arkansas. The only culprits the police identified were three teenage boys who happened to be involved in Wicca and heavy metal music; regardless they all had alibis and witnesses to [ Read More ]
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- 5/8/2014
- by juliana
- ShockYa
The men known as the West Memphis Three were convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the heinous murders of three little boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Jason Baldwin, who’s interviewed here, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Jessie Misskelley, Jr., received a sentence of life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and the so-called ringleader, Damien Echols, was given the death penalty.
During the trial the prosecution declared that the children were slain as part of a Satanic ritual. A number of documentaries have been based on the case, and celebrities, filmmakers, and musicians have spoken out in the belief that they are innocent. Finally, in 2010, the trio were released after striking an unusual legal deal.
And now, there’s a Hollywood movie, Devil's Knot (review). It’s directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon.
Dread Central: One wonders… as someone who lived the story,...
Jessie Misskelley, Jr., received a sentence of life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and the so-called ringleader, Damien Echols, was given the death penalty.
During the trial the prosecution declared that the children were slain as part of a Satanic ritual. A number of documentaries have been based on the case, and celebrities, filmmakers, and musicians have spoken out in the belief that they are innocent. Finally, in 2010, the trio were released after striking an unusual legal deal.
And now, there’s a Hollywood movie, Devil's Knot (review). It’s directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon.
Dread Central: One wonders… as someone who lived the story,...
- 5/5/2014
- by Staci Layne Wilson
- DreadCentral.com
With one trailer already out there for Devil’s Knot, Atom Egoyan’s dramatized take on the West Memphis Three case, Apple is debuting a second, which features some new footage.The West Memphis Three are Jessie Misskelley (Kristopher Higgins), Damien Echols (James Hamrick) and Jason Baldwin (Seth Meriwether), who were accused of murdering three eight-year-old cub scouts in a satanic ritual in 1993. Subsequent investigations, not least in Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost films, demolished the original "case", and the consensus now is that moral panic convicted them rather than anything in the way of evidence.While the three are now free, the Arkansas judge responsible stopped short of actually overturning their convictions, meaning that local law enforcement officials have not had to admit to or apologise for their egregious original work, and that Echols in particular is entitled to no compensation for his 17 years spent on Death Row.Scott Derrickson...
- 3/10/2014
- EmpireOnline
You may already know the awful story of the wrongfully convicted West Memphis Three from Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's excellent trilogy of Paradise Lost documentaries. Also in the works for the last couple of years, however, has been Atom Egoyan's dramatisation of those events, Devil's Knot, and here is the first trailer, along with a poster. Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth are the big names in the cast, along with Egoyan regular Elias Koteas.The West Memphis Three are Jessie Misskelley (Kristopher Higgins), Damien Echols (James Hamrick) and Jason Baldwin (Seth Meriwether), who were accused of murdering three eight-year-old cub scouts in a satanic ritual in 1993. Subsequent investigations, not least in the Paradise Lost films, demolished the original "case", and the consensus now is that moral panic convicted them rather than anything in the way of evidence.While the three are now free, the Arkansas judge responsible...
- 11/20/2013
- EmpireOnline
With the 2012 American Film Market now officially over, we have a few odds and ends of sales art and other information to share, and first up is an early look at Dimension Films' Devil's Knot along with the official synopsis.
Synopsis:
From Academy Award nominated director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) and starring Oscar winners Colin Firth (The King's Speech) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), comes the true story of a crime that would grip a nation for almost two decades and that continues to be one of the most high-profile trials of all time.
Based on the bestseller by Mara Leveritt, Devil's Knot recounts the trial and conviction of teenagers Damien Echols (James Hamrick), Jessie Misskelley, Jr. (Kristopher Higgins), and Jason Baldwin (Seth Meriwether) for the savage murder of three, eight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. Dubbed the so-called "West Memphis Three,...
Synopsis:
From Academy Award nominated director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) and starring Oscar winners Colin Firth (The King's Speech) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), comes the true story of a crime that would grip a nation for almost two decades and that continues to be one of the most high-profile trials of all time.
Based on the bestseller by Mara Leveritt, Devil's Knot recounts the trial and conviction of teenagers Damien Echols (James Hamrick), Jessie Misskelley, Jr. (Kristopher Higgins), and Jason Baldwin (Seth Meriwether) for the savage murder of three, eight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. Dubbed the so-called "West Memphis Three,...
- 11/9/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
“In Production” is a regular column which focuses on notable independent films that are currently shooting.
After four documentaries (three of which were produced by HBO, the other by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh), the story of the West Memphis Three gets the narrative treatment courtesy of director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter). Devil’s Knot focuses on three young men, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. who were wrongfully accused of murdering three children as part of a satanic ritual. Appearing in the lead roles are newcomer James Hamrick (a Wesleyan drama student) as Echols, Seth Meriwether (Trouble with the Curve) as Baldwin and Kristopher Higgins (In Time) as Misskelley. The film also stars Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), Colin Firth (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Mireille Enos (AMC’s The Killing), and Alessandro Nivola (Howl). Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) wrote...
After four documentaries (three of which were produced by HBO, the other by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh), the story of the West Memphis Three gets the narrative treatment courtesy of director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter). Devil’s Knot focuses on three young men, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. who were wrongfully accused of murdering three children as part of a satanic ritual. Appearing in the lead roles are newcomer James Hamrick (a Wesleyan drama student) as Echols, Seth Meriwether (Trouble with the Curve) as Baldwin and Kristopher Higgins (In Time) as Misskelley. The film also stars Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), Colin Firth (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Mireille Enos (AMC’s The Killing), and Alessandro Nivola (Howl). Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) wrote...
- 8/13/2012
- by Byron Camacho
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
And the cast for the West Memphis 3 flick Devil's Knot keeps right on expanding. This time vampire Bill himself from HBO's hit vampire series "True Blood" has joined the ever-growing cast. Read on for the latest.
According to Deadline, Stephen Moyer has joined the cast of Devil’s Knot in a lead role. The "True Blood" star will play prosecutor John Fogelman in the film about the wrongfully convicted and imprisoned West Memphis 3.
He joins Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth in the project that will be produced and financed by Worldview Entertainment. Matt Letscher is set to play defense attorney “Paul Ford,” the man who represents Jason Baldwin, college drama student James Hamrick will make his feature debut playing key defendant Damien Echols, and Seth Meriwether has been tapped to play West Memphis Three defendant Jason Baldwin . Also starring are Mireille Enos, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Collette Wolfe, Alessandro Nivola and Kris Polaha.
According to Deadline, Stephen Moyer has joined the cast of Devil’s Knot in a lead role. The "True Blood" star will play prosecutor John Fogelman in the film about the wrongfully convicted and imprisoned West Memphis 3.
He joins Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth in the project that will be produced and financed by Worldview Entertainment. Matt Letscher is set to play defense attorney “Paul Ford,” the man who represents Jason Baldwin, college drama student James Hamrick will make his feature debut playing key defendant Damien Echols, and Seth Meriwether has been tapped to play West Memphis Three defendant Jason Baldwin . Also starring are Mireille Enos, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Collette Wolfe, Alessandro Nivola and Kris Polaha.
- 6/29/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Atom Egoyan's Devil's Knot, based on the events surrounding the recently freed West Memphis Three, has cast an actor to play one of the key components in this truly tragic and horrifying story. Read on for the latest!
Deadline reports that Matt Letscher has joined the film to play defense attorney “Paul Ford,” the man who represents Jason Baldwin, one of the three teenagers accused of a triple homicide. Despite no psychical evidence, the three were convicted in 1993. Baldwin, along with Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley, Jr., were finally released in 2011.
He joins Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth in the project that will be produced and financed by Worldview Entertainment. College drama student James Hamrick will make his feature debut playing key defendant Damien Echols, and Seth Meriwether has been tapped to play West Memphis Three defendant Jason Baldwin . Also starring are Mireille Enos, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Collette Wolfe,...
Deadline reports that Matt Letscher has joined the film to play defense attorney “Paul Ford,” the man who represents Jason Baldwin, one of the three teenagers accused of a triple homicide. Despite no psychical evidence, the three were convicted in 1993. Baldwin, along with Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley, Jr., were finally released in 2011.
He joins Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth in the project that will be produced and financed by Worldview Entertainment. College drama student James Hamrick will make his feature debut playing key defendant Damien Echols, and Seth Meriwether has been tapped to play West Memphis Three defendant Jason Baldwin . Also starring are Mireille Enos, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Collette Wolfe,...
- 6/22/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
After casting well-known veterans Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon and Alessandro Nivola to his drama Devil's Knot, director Atom Egoyan signed a second up-and-coming actor to play one of the lead defendants. Variety reported that Seth Meriwether, a senior at Macon East Academy in Montgomery, Ala. joined the film to play one of the teen leads. Recently, Egoyan signed drama student James Hamrick in the key role of accused teen Damien Echols. Scott Derrickson and Paul Boardman wrote the script based on the book Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three; about the murder trial of teens Jason Baldwin, Echols, and Jessie Misskelley, tried and wrongfully convicted for the murders of three eight-year-old boys discovered in a muddy creek in the Robin Hood Hills area of West Memphis, Ark.
- 6/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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