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Marion Cotillard Joins Brad Pitt in Robert Zemeckis-Directed Spy Thriller 0 890

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Ever since she caught everyone’s attention with her powerful, Oscar-winning performance in La Vie en Rose, Marion Cotillard has become one of the most sought-after actresses working today. Now she’s adding a high profile spy thriller to her list of projects.

Variety reports that Cotillard is joining the cast of director Robert Zemeckis’ as-yet-untitled spy thriller, which already had Brad Pitt set to star and will be produced by the Oscar-winning Graham King (The Departed).

The script is written by Steven Knight, who’s a busy bee himself, having created BBC period crime drama Peaky Blinders; written the Tom Hardy-in-a-car thriller Locke, sentimental foody drama The Hundred-Foot Journey and this year’s (admittedly awful) fantasy epic Seventh Son; and currently working on the script for Pitt’s own World War Z sequel. The plot of Knight’s spy thriller script is being kept under wraps for the time being.

Zemeckis is currently ready to launch his highly anticipated 3D adventure biopic The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and this spy thriller is only really happening as is because he and Pitt both requested that production be pushed so the director could promote that film. Just today we reported on Netflix acquiring the fights to Pitt’s satirical comedy War Machine, which the actor hopes to squeeze in before filming this.

Cotillard almost couldn’t work things out to star in this project as the Autumn shooting date clashed with that of video game adaptation Assassin’s Creed, in which she reunites with her Macbeth co-star Michael Fassbender. But it appears, probably because of Zemeckis and Pitt convincing the studio to delay things a bit, that Cotillard has managed to work it into her busy schedule.

The untitled spy thriller wil now shoot in early 2016 and we can probably expect it around Oscar season later that year. We’ll keep things updated as and when plot details and more cast members are announced.

Source: Variety

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Leonardo DiCaprio Producing Volkswagen Scandal Movie 0 1410

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Wow, talk about things moving fast in Hollywood!

It may have only been a few weeks since the scandal erupted around the Volkswagen fuel emissions cheating but there’s already a movie in the works. DiCaprio is on board to produce the film alongside Jennifer Davisson through his Appian Way company.

There’s no mention of stars, writer or director yet – one might assume that DiCaprio might star himself but he’s a known environmentalist who has produced these types of themed films before (the climate change documentary The 11th Hour chief among them) so it wouldn’t surprise me if he kept himself strictly as a producer for this one, too.

Paramount is the studio behind the movie, having nabbed the presumably sought-after rights to the upcoming book by Jack Ewing. Variety has the details on what it exposes:

“…The company placed illegal software in their clean diesel cars that could tell when a car was being tested for fuel emissions and would turn on the emissions control to cheat the test and meet EPA standards. During normal driving conditions, emission control software was shut off  — resulting in as much as 40 times more pollution than allowed by law. Volkswagen is currently facing up to $18 billion in fines from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.”

If there’s one thing Hollywood loves it’s a true story and, more specifically, a controversial one. Getting this one made and out in the world will be crucial for it to feel relevant to audiences. DiCaprio being attached can’t exactly hurt its box office chances.

The actor will next be seen in the amazing-looking The Revenant.

Source: Variety

Watch: Incredible New Trailer for ‘The Revenant’ 0 1244

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We don’t usually post trailers individually – saving them for the Trailer Watch – but this one was just too good to pass up.

The Revenant is the new film from acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who most recently won an Oscar for Birdman. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter in a tale of a forntierman in 1820 who sets out on a path of vengeance who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

We already had one amazing teaser trailer, now check out the equally great new trailer below:

Could this be the film that finally wins Leo his Best Actor Oscar? Quite possibly!

The Revenant is set for release in the UK on January 15th, 2016.