Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart are certainly dripping with rock ‘n’ roll attitude in this new still for The Runaways, which has picked up a distributor, a release date, and, according to the LA Times, even more:

Apparition, the upstart company co-founded earlier this year by the film-distribution guru, has picked up U.S. rights to The Runaways, a movie based on rocker Joan Jett, who co-founded that seminal 1970s band before finding stardom as a solo act.

The distributor plans on releasing the movie, which stars Kristen Stewart as Jett and Dakota Fanning as her band mate Cherie Currie, on March 19 — meaning that fans of Twilight (and everyone else) will be subjected to a kind of Stewart-mania, as she appears three times on the big screen in a span of seven months (she also stars in the the third Twilight picture, Eclipse, set to be released in June.)

Music-video veteran Floria Sigismondi directed The Runaways and Apparition will pursue a dual marketing strategy for the film that targets the adults who remember the Jett-era and the kids who are fans of Stewart and Twilight (though the edgy tone and R rating of Runaways could keep the ad campaign from skewing too young).

“We want to appeal to an older audience and people who can remember the scene back then as well as show younger people that this was someone who paved the way,” [Bob] Berney said in an interview. “We want to make sure people know it’s not just a typical rock biopic.”

Pic is set to debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival with a “possible” live performance by Joan Jett herself. Possible? C’mon, she’ll be all over that shit.

Imagery: River Road Entertainment