Though it only started shooting in October and is planned for a late 2010 Oscar-based release, Robert Redford’s ‘it wasn’t there and now it’s finished’ film The Conspirator may compete at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. But then, so may a lot of films so hold on to that grain of salt.
Redford’s film, written by James D. Solomon (ESPN’s minseries The Bronx Is Burning), concerns Mary Surratt (Robin Wright Penn), who was charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The film also stars Justin Long Alexis Bledel, James McAvoy, Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Huston, Kevin Kline and Tom Wilkinson.
The Cannes rumors appear to be purely speculative, but it’d be interesting to see for sure.

Source: TheFilmStage.com