Kristen Stewart to Star in Kirsten Johnson’s Sontag

Kristen Stewart is set to star in Kirsten Johnson’s new biopic, Sontag. Based on the biography Sontag: Her Life by Ben Moser, Stewart will play Susan Sontag.

Variety is reporting, “Sontag was an influential writer and intellectual who would often distill complex ideas about human rights and social justice into clear-headed essays. Her nonfiction work, which brought light to social issues like the AIDS epidemic and criticism of the Vietnam War, was often met with controversy.”

Production will begin at the Berlin Film Festival later this year.