Phillip Noyce Pitches Bank Robber Movie ‘Peggy Jo,’ Starring Lily James, to Cannes Buyers

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As part of its Cannes Market presentations, HanWay Films arranged for Phillip Noyce to tell buyers about its true-crime love story “Peggy Jo,” which he will direct, with “Baby Driver” and “Yesterda…

starring. The film is loosely based on the true-story of the life of Texan Peggy Jo Tallas, who takes to robbing banks while posing as a man.

Although James is younger than the real character, many of the details are the same, Noyce said, such as the aging infirm mother, she cares for, her relationship with her brother, and her love affair. “That said, this is first and foremost a piece of escapist entertainment,” Noyce said. Noyce said: “This is a story about the extraordinariness that is in so-called ‘ordinary persons’,” which can be observed if you “look beneath the surface.” On the surface, she lives “a mundane life,” working as a waitress, but “she dreams,” he said, and then one day “she fulfils her dream,” at huge risk to herself. Along the way, she meets another so-called ordinary person who she believes is like herself, a lover of books, fantasy and nature, with unfulfilled dreams.

He said that her costume, when she is dressed as a man, would be key to the believability of her character, given that it was initially believed that the robber was a man. As “Cowboy Bob” she will be dressed in high cowboy boots and a Stetson to give her added height.

 

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