First Look: Infamous

Okay, so in all honesty I have no idea what's going to happen with this film. Early test reviews have been very favorable. I'm not going to disregard it the way most seem to be doing. Capote made almost $30m and was nominated for a bunch of awards and won several majors. This, budgeted at around $20m reportedly, is said to be a more entertaining look at the New York world that Truman inhabitited and how it changed to him when he wrote In Cold Blood. Since Capote was pretty bleak in tone and style, this is more colorful and the costumes look terrific. The cinematographer is the same guy who did Amelie and A Very Long Engagement. So perhaps if it can't sneak into the major categories the way Capote did, it seems a shoe-in for Costume and Cinematography. It should also be more audience friendly, too. It is star studded after all. Here's your first look at Gwyneth in her cameo as Peggy Lee. Relative unknown Toby Jones plays Capote here, and Sandra Bullock is Harper Lee. Soon-to-be-Bond Daniel Craig is Perry Smith, and the cast is rounded out by Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels, Peter Bogdanovich and Isabella Rosellini to name a few.

More stills are available here.

Infamous is from Warner Independent Pictures and will be released October 13th.