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More big-name actors have signed onto "The Conspirator," Robert Redford's post-Civil War drama, which started filming last week in Savannah, Ga.

The movie stars Robin Wright Penn as Mary Surratt, the boarding-house operator who rented a room to John Wilkes Booth — and in whose parlor the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln was plotted. The film follows Surratt's trial, and the Union war hero Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy, from "Atonement"), who reluctantly takes on her legal defense.

The blog "The Playlist" has a photo of McAvoy in costume (pictured at left), as well as one of recently signed co-star Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Surratt's daughter Anna.

Also new to the cast, according to Daily Variety: Tom Wilkinson ("Batman Begins," "In the Bedroom") as Reverdy Johnson, a U.S. senator and former attorney general, who is Aiken's mentor; Kevin Kline ("A Fish Called Wanda") as Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War and one of the conspiracy's targets; Alexis Bledel ("The Gilmore Girls," "Post Grad") as Aiken's wife, Sarah Weston; and Toby Kebbell ("Rock N Rolla") as John Wilkes Booth.

Justin Long ("Drag Me to Hell") previously signed on to play Aiken's best friend.