The Notorious R.B.G. Gets Another Showcase With ‘On the Basis of Sex’

Riding the success of the documentary ‘RBG,’ Focus Features looks to transform an astonishing life story into awards season gold.

In an era desperate for social change, it is often necessary to look to history for inspiration. Champions of equality and soldiers of progress have always walked amongst us, and their impact on our world can be seen from the greatest leaps of legal evolution to the minuscule alterations in daily culture. We need to celebrate their victories while still not ignoring the great wars ahead of us.

Earlier this year, documentarians Betsy West and Julie Cohen unveiled RBG, a film about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Spanning nearly her entire lifespan, tracking her contentious saga through the legal system and into her surreal, memetic existence as the “Notorious R.B.G.,” the doc is essential viewing for anyone struggling to find purpose in our ever-increasing misery spinning out of the political hellscape. Never has the voice of a dissenter been more important.

It should come to no surprise that Ginsburg has stimulated another act of cinematic revolt. Focus Features and director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact) have partnered in an effort to chronicle the gargantuan life of this American legend in dramatic biopic form. Based on the first trailer, On the Basis of Sex looks to recapture the same beats found in the documentary but with a little more Hollywood pizazz. Felicity Jones, who plays Ginsburg, and Armie Hammer certainly go a long way in adding that coat of glam to the proceedings.

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