If you want to work in film, it certainly helps if your father is a world famous director. 25-year-old Sean Stone, son of Oliver, started his directorial career making behind-the-scenes documentaries about his father’s movie, Alexander, before making the sci-fi short, Singularity, which was a semi-remake of one of his dad’s early films.
Now it’s been announced that Sean is planning his first feature film as director, Shadowland, which the NY Post enigmatically describes as a “Blair Witch Project-like movie about the mental hospital where Rosemary Kennedy was lobotomized”. Rosemary was, of course, the sister of JFK, who got the ice pick to the brain to control her mood swings, but it left her permanently incapacitated.
Sean is apparently going to star in the film, as is his father, Oliver, and the movie will also feature Monique can Vooren. It sounds like the idea is to have everyone playing themselves, and then having spooky goings on when they enter an abandoned mental hospital.
It could be the start of a promising career, and getting his famous father to help him launch it will certainly help, as long as he doesn’t mind the cries of nepotism.