Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez are set to star in Brady Corbet’s next feature film alongside Michael Fassbender, marking the Oscar-nominated director’s first project following The Brutalist.
The untitled film is still being kept largely secret, though Corbet has previously described it as an “X-rated” project focused mainly on the 1970s. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year, the filmmaker said the story spans from the 19th century to the present day and described it as “really, really genre-defying.”
Blanchett confirmed her involvement during a masterclass at the Cannes Film Festival, while reports of Gomez joining the cast had previously surfaced earlier this month. The project is also reportedly being shot using rare eight-perf 65mm cameras, continuing Corbet’s interest in large-scale, visually ambitious filmmaking.
According to reports, the screenplay runs around 200 pages long, which would make it even bigger in scope than The Brutalist, Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour historical drama that earned 10 Oscar nominations earlier this year. Andrew Morrison is producing the film through Kaplan Morrison. The project will mark Corbet’s fourth feature following The Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux and The Brutalist.
Blanchett most recently appeared in Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, while Gomez continues to balance acting and music alongside her role in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, which has already been renewed for a sixth season. Michael Fassbender, meanwhile, recently starred opposite Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag.
For CultureCues, this already feels like one of those casts that immediately makes a project impossible to ignore. Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez and Michael Fassbender in a mysterious Brady Corbet film set largely in the 1970s? That is the kind of sentence that sends film Twitter, Letterboxd and every Cannes group chat into immediate detective mode.
No release date or title has been confirmed yet, but we’ll update this story when more details arrive.
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