Filming of the new Lizzie Borden film, starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, is underway in Savannah, Georgia, according to an article by Savannah Now.

According to The Herald News, Sevigny will take the role as Lizzie in the gothic psychological thriller.

Sevigney spent some time at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum in Fall River last month researching for her role.

Actor Jay Huguley, who has starred in the "Walking Dead" and in the film "12 Years A Slave," will play William Henry Moody, the prosecuting attorney in the case.

In actual life, Lizzie was tried for murdering her father and step-mother, Andrew and Abby, with numerous blows of a hatchet in their Second Street home in Fall River, which is now a Bed & Breakfast.

Lizzie was acquitted of charges in 1893 and is viewed by some as a "heartless psychopath" who got away with murder.

The film will shoot in various locations around Savannah.

With additional reporting by Sal Lopez

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