Hollywood actors Elle Fanning and Sarah Paulson are all set to star in a brand new movie from writer-director Mirrah Foulkes titled I Am Sybil. The movie, based mostly on a best-selling guide, tells the true story of the world’s first mainstream case of dissociative id dysfunction (or higher often called a number of character dysfunction).
Sybil is the pseudonym that Flora Rheta Schreiber gave in her 1973 guide Sybil for a younger girl named Shirley Mason. The guide examined the therapy that psychologist Connie Wilbur gave to Shirley who manifested 16 distinct personalities as a result of sexual and bodily abuse. However, the brand new movie is predicated on Debbie Nathan’s 2011 guide Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case, which uncovered the reality behind the true story.
According to Deadline, Fanning would possibly play Mason and Paulson would possibly star as Wilbur within the new movie. I Am Sybil has a script written by Foulkes and Jen Silverman. Jennifer Todd Pictures, Annapurna and The Gotham Group are bankrolling the challenge.
Notably, the story of Sybil has beforehand given beginning to 2 tv film diversifications — NBC’s 1976 movie starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, and CBS’s 2007 movie starring Tammy Blanchard, Jessica Lange and JoBeth Williams.
Source: www.thehindu.com