It’s one X-rated film to the next at Cannes.
As the controversial horror-drama The Devils (1971) is celebrated at the France festival with a 55th-anniversary screening, new details surrounding The Brutalist director Brady Corbet‘s juicy new project were just revealed.
Variety reports that Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez are set to star in the new X-rated movie alongside Michael Fassbender.
During a masterclass at the France film festival on Sunday, May 17, Blanchett, 57, reportedly said she is “about to work with Brady Corbet on a film.” Variety confirmed that she has indeed been cast.
Corbet, 37, previously 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,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview article published last November 24.
Variety also noted on Sunday that 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. Fans of The Brutalist, which stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Huffman, might recall that the script was 165 pages, with the film totaling three and a half hours in duration.
Blanchett made headlines last month when Variety confirmed she’ll be portraying Martha Stewart in an upcoming biopic reportedly titled Good Thing about the TV personality’s life and career. Filmmaker Janicza Bravo, best known for 2020’s critically acclaimed film Zola, has also been confirmed to direct the project.
Most famously, the 56-year-old Blanchett won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2004’s The Aviator, in which she portrayed Golden Age of Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn. She went on to win her second Oscar for Best Actress in 2013’s Blue Jasmine.
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