Star Tracks Wednesday, September 2. From Hollywood to New York and everywhere in between, see what your favorite stars are up to By People Staff. Posted on September 2. Kristen Stewarts Equals Sees Dispute Over Costume Design Credits. Credit wars are a fact of Hollywood life thats rarely laid bare. Those involved are often intimidated by the possible consequences, and the backstories arent simple theres the question of whether theyll be believed, or if anyone really has the patience to hear them out. The battle over costume design credits on Equals is different. READ MORE Equals Review Kristen Stewart Is The Only Bright Spot In This Dull Dystopian Romance. Directed by the Sundance winning Drake Doremus, Equals stars Kristen Stewart and Nicolas Hoult. Two costume designers are officially credited to the production In first position is Abby OSullivan, a veteran whose credits included Frozen River, Sinister, and Mississippi Grind. In second position, Alana Morshead, who was an actress and stylist when she started collaborating with Doremus on the film. However, according to OSullivan and others who worked on the films costumes, Morshead is taking credit she doesnt deserve. Ms. Morshead has made false statements, appropriated Ms. OSullivans work and statements for her own commercial benefit, and her actions are deliberately misleading the public, wrote attorney Ryan Pastorek in a cease and desist letter sent to Morshead and her publicist on July 1. Understanding how it got here is complex. Like most movie credit issues, this one has ties to intellectual property. It can be tough to define a page one rewrite, or which producer gets to accept an Oscar, but below the line credits align with specific tasks designed to serve a directors vision and usually have less room for misunderstanding. Equals Rights Plagiarism Accusation Ignites BehindtheScenes Battle Over Costume Design. However, the role of Costume Designer is one of the more misunderstood crafts of the filmmaking process. Snuff 102 Full Movie Part 1. To fully grasp this story, its first important to understand how the clothes worn by movie stars end up on screen. EqualsPhoto by Jessica Forde, courtesy of A2. Concept to Camera TestEquals began in an amorphous fashion, as all of Doremus projects do He gathers an inner circle of friends and colleagues to talk, blue sky, and otherwise imagine what the films possibilities can be. Drake has a team of people that he riffs with on all aspects of what hes going to make, said Equals producer Michael A. Pruss of Ridley Scott Associates, who also served as co producer on Doremus last film, Breathe In. We were all riffing on the approach stylistically. It was a creative collective. This was a particularly important process for Equals, where Doremus conceived a love story within an emotionless, futuristic dystopia. While his previous low budget indies were largely improvised, this concept would require Doremus to work from a script and take on production and costume design significantly more complex than anything in his four prior films including Spooner, Douchebag, and Sundance Grand Jury prize winner Like Crazy. READ MORE How The Maggies Plan Costume Designer Interpreted Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore and Ethan Hawkes Characters. Among Doremus collaborators is his longtime girlfriend, Alana Morshead, a Los Angeles Film School graduate and an actress, who had worked as a stylist on commercials directed by Doremus. When Equals began, her only costuming credits according to IMDB included a 2. Century Fox TV pilot, Enormous, and a season as set costumer on a Playboy TV reality dating show, The Man. However, multiple sources close to the production confirm that Morshead was key in helping him shape his ideas, especially around what the characters would wear in this dystopian environment. Drake Doremus and Alana Morshead. Photo by Amanda SchwabStar. PixREXShutterstock. The director characterized that process in the Equals press notes Doremus recruited costume designer Alana Morshead, with whom hed made several TV commercials, to develop the characters signature outfits. Alana came up with idea that the Equals should wear clothes that were stylish and pleasing to the eye, but also comfortable and uniform esque, Doremus says. La Clippers Dance Squad Episode 5 Personal Foul more. She gave me tons of pulls from different fashion magazines and designers. Then we did screen tests with all these different combinations of fabrics and colors and off whites and grays until we ended up with the outfits you see in the film. Watch Big Fat Liar 2 Putlocker here. In an interview with Indie. Wire, Doremus confirmed that the path from magazine tearsheets to on camera costumes was streamlined, guided by Morsheads designs. If youd saw the finished product and the camera tests at 1. READ MORE How IFC Films Got Into the Kristen Stewart Business. However, according to multiple sources, the process didnt flow it was a white water rapid that included a revolving door of designers, last second overhauls, and production in multiple countries and Morshead was present for little of it. Mississippi Grind filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck will helm the MCU standalone. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get.