Washington DC [US], May 17 (ANI): Actress Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez are set to star in ‘The Brutalist’ director Brady Corbet’s next film alongside Michael Fassbender, reported Variety.
According to the outlet, during a masterclass at Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, Blanchett let slip that she’s “about to work with Brady Corbet on a film.” The actress has indeed been cast in the Oscar-nominated helmer’s next feature, with Gomez also starring in addition to Fassbender. The InSneider had previously reported Gomez’s casting.
Plot details of the still untitled film remain shrouded in secrecy, though Corbet has said in interviews that he was looking to make an “X-rated” feature set in the ’70s.
“The film spans from the 19th century into the present day — it’s just predominantly focused on the ’70s. The film is really, really genre-defying,” Brady Corbet told the Hollywood Reporter. It’s also reportedly being shot using very rare eight-perf 65mm cameras.
At the Storyhouse Screenwriting Festival in Dublin last month, Corbet teased that the new film will be lengthy, saying it has a 200-page script. By comparison, “The Brutalist” was a 165-page script and had a three-and-a-half-hour runtime, reported Variety.
Andrew Morrison is producing the next Corbet project for his Kaplan Morrison production banner. It will mark Corbet’s fourth feature, having directed 2015’s “The Childhood of a Leader” and 2018’s “Vox Lux” before “The Brutalist.”
Oscar-winning actor Blanchett has worked with auteurs including Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, David Fincher and Wes Anderson. She most recently starred in Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother,” which won the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
According to Variety, Cate won the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Katharine Hepburn in Scorsese’s ‘The Aviator’ (2004) and took home the best actress trophy for Woody Allen’s 2013 drama ‘Blue Jasmine.’
Gomez, in addition to being a global pop star and the founder of makeup brand Rare Beauty, has also had a long acting career. After starting on the Disney Channel with series ‘Wizards of Waverly Place,’ Gomez broke out in Harmony Korine’s 2012 romp ‘Spring Breakers’ and most recently starred in Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Perez,’ which won her a Cannes best actress award alongside Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon and Adriana Paz.
She’s also led five seasons of the Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building,” which has earned her an Emmy nomination and has been renewed for a sixth season. (ANI)
