Kristen Stewart, Floria Sigismondi, and Joan Jett on the set of The Runaways

In this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (via MTV), reporters were on the set of 36 movies and TV shows, including the set of Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways. Kristen Stewart is pictured with director Floria Sigismondi above in a photo from the EW issue.

Joan Jett is reportedly always on the set scaring the heck out of Stewart:

...watching Kristen and her fellow "New Moon" costar Dakota Fanning channel her and her '70s girl group was an unusual experience for the music legend. "It's really hard to put exact words on it beyond saying it’s surreal,” Joan explained.

To help Kristen with her portrayal, Joan gave her tapes of herself talking and singing at the age of 14, which Kristen spent weeks listening to.

“I’m sure it was a strange pressure [on Kristen],” Joan said of her constant presence on set. “She was kind of intimidated by it, but by the same token she wanted me there.”

There are also some kick ass photos of Kristen Stewart from Interview magazine. Some are posted below, but you can check out the rest courtesy of ONTD!

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in costume for 'The Runaways'

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are currently shooting The Runaways - a biopic about the all-girl rock band from the 197os. IESB.net points us to some photos of Stewart as Joan Jett and a rather grown up looking Fanning as Cherie Currie and there even more photos at the source.

Alessandra Torresani cast as Lita Ford in 'The Runaways'

Back in March, we got word that Dakota Fanning had been cast as Cherie Currie, lead singer of 1970s band The Runaways. Now, largely unknown actress, 22-year old Alessandra Torresani has been cast as lead guitarist Lita Ford. Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Stella Maeve as the band's original drummer Sandy West, and Michael Shannon as manager Kim Fowley round out the rest of the principal cast.




It also looks like Torresani will begin shooting pretty soon:

Now, Torresani laughed, she has less than seven days to learn how to convincingly wield her axe.

"I learn the guitar starting [Monday], so that'll be interesting," she laughed. "I'm very nervous about it."

Torresani told us she'll be picking up the guitar as she meets Stewart, Fanning and Maeve for the first time and that the newly formed band has less than a week to rehearse. "I haven't met any of the girls yet. I'll meet them soon. I see them tomorrow, so that's soon enough," she grinned. [MTV via The Playlist]

I'm looking forward to this film even though I haven't actually seen Torresani or Maeve in anything. It still seems hard to determine the direction The Runaways will take, mostly because director Floria Sigismondi has never directed a feature film and two of the principal actors are relative unknowns, but perhaps that's what makes the project intriguing.