Avenue of Stars Guillermo del Toro
After "The Form of Water", which brought him the "Oscar", Guillermo del Toro, as planned, took a short sabbatical, and a new film adaptation of "Alley of Nightmares" will help him to return to duty - it will be del Toro's next directorial work. The filmmaker invited Bradley Cooper to the lead role, so the adaptation has already riveted the attention of the Hollywood beau monde, and a noble company is being selected for the actor.Nobody has officially signed up to take part in the filming of the film, but the press managed to find out that colleagues in the drama "Carol" Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, Toni Collette ("Reincarnation"), Willem Dafoe ("Spider-Man") are at different stages of negotiations. ), Mark Povinelli (Water for Elephants!), Ron Perlman, and Richard Jenkins and Michael Shannon, who migrated to the Alley of Nightmares from The Shape of Water. The main character of the film is charming Stan Carlisle, who got a job in a traveling circus. Here he meets the medium Mademoiselle Xena, whose number used to be incredibly popular. Stan is ready to go to any tricks to find out the secret of this number, and having achieved his goal, he leaves the circus and begins a solo career. However, his exorbitant ambition and a woman who can outsmart even the most skilled manipulator jeopardize all Stan's dreams of a luxurious life.  Insiders believe that Toni Collette may be playing Mademoiselle Xena, while Willem Dafoe could play her alcoholic husband and assistant Pete. Pearlman will try on the image of a strong man from a traveling circus, and Jenkins will be one of the victims of Stan's machinations. There is no information about Shannon's potential heroes, who was offered a small role in the film, and Povinelli. Rooney Mara, in turn, can play a girl named Molly, who liked Stan, and Blanchett - his psychologist. In the original novel, Molly worked in the same circus with Carlisle and later became an assistant in his own show, and the psychotherapist Lilith turned out to be the femme fatale that brought Stan to the brink.  Filming for the new Nightmare Alley is expected to begin this fall. The film has no premiere date yet. Source: Collider The Topic of Article: Avenue of Stars Guillermo del Toro. |
