Copperhead,
Ron Maxwell’s latest film now shooting in Atlantic Canada, is ostensibly about
families on the homefront split by the bloodshed of the American Civil War.
But as much as
the director of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals is keeping his focus on events
in 1862 and telling a compelling story, Maxwell insists his latest Civil War
costume drama will inevitably be seen by cinema-goers as an echo of America’s
reaction to current events in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I keep it
(Copperhead) with as much integrity as I can in 1862, but people will watch
this film and leave the theatre and say, ‘Wow, it was like a 150 years ago, and
it’s like now,’” the director said from King’s Landing, New Brunswick, where
he’s shooting the Jason Patric and Angus MacFadyen-starrer set in 19th century
upstate New York.
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