David Cronenberg Taps Sarah Gadon Again For ‘Cosmopolis’

COMMENTS (23)

• The casting looks perfect, am very pleased with the casting choices, didnt like the Keira K casting.
  Love Cronenberg’s films, am looking forward to A dangerous method as well as this movie

  Comment by sarah — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 1:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Welll…. I would really like to see Rob and Keira together in something.. a period piece like Bel Ami they would be genius lovers!!!!

    Comment by Lakey — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 5:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Really excited for this movie. Just finished the book and it is seriously twisted! Can’t wait to see what Cronenberg does with it.

  Comment by Cindy M. — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 1:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m really excited about this film. Very curious and looking forward to see what Cronenberg will do with it, being that he is both the Writer and Director of the movie. Looks like an awesome cast!

  Comment by Linsey — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 2:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Boring story + boring cast = boring movie. I’ll pass on this Cronenberg piece.

  Comment by danielrzz — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 2:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• i finally read this book, and its different. its going to be interesting to see a movie about it. i’ve never heard of this actress, but i can see her as the wife. i’ve always liked cronenbergs work, so i guess if anyone can bring to life the book it will be him.

  Comment by hmb — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 3:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’ve seen Sarah Gadon on a lot of Canadian television. She is so gorgeous.I am excited to see a Canadian actress rip it up on the big screen.

  Comment by Ava — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 4:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• She’s pretty and looks like a perfect Elise.

  Comment by chris — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 5:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This will get a lot of media attention and still end up grossing less than 5 million worldwide.

  It’s not even one of DeLillo’s better books. And who cares about a 20 something billionaire?

  Comment by steve — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 5:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • cronenberg’s movies don’t end up being boxoffice hits. his movies are geared more toward the artsy types, and critics. who cares about a 20 something billionarire? obviously someone does since they are making a movie about it.

    Comment by hmb — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 7:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Who cares about a 20 something billionaire? Maybe all the 20 somethings who want to BE a billionaire, as evidenced by the 81,323,825 hits for the Travie McCoy tune of the same name on Youtube. That’s a lot of singalongs, and I’ve seen a few–by twentysomethings.

    “It’s all in the presentation”

    Comment by Thomas J. Coleman — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 8:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Never heard of her. It doesn’t bode well for the movie they couldn’t get any kind of name at all. And casting Robert Pattinson they pretty much sent it’s credibility and box office potential down the toilet. Looks like a definite miss.

  Comment by Kate — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 6:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Cronenberg knows how to cast films. He asked for Sarah specifically. The rest of the world will discover her soon.

  Comment by Julia — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 7:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “It doesn’t bode well for the movie they couldn’t get any kind of name at all.”

  LOL Yeah, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti and Samantha Morton are just total NO-NAMES. /sarcasm.

  C’mon, Cronenberg could get any name he wanted if he actually wanted a name for the wife. He was obviously impressed with Sarah after working with her on A Dangerous Method and decided she was the best actor for the part. I find it kind of hilarious that people are suddenly writing his work off just because Pattinson is starring. If we know anything about Conenberg it’s that he beats to his own drum and he doesn’t sell out so the if he hired Pattinson, he believes he’s got the talent and potential to carry this movie. People just need to get over it and give the kid a chance. I’m no fan of Twilight but it makes no sense to judge everything about this guy on that piece of crap.

  Pattinson seems like a pretty cool and down to earth dude unlike some of the other young actors out there who are total egotistical douches. He’s trying to become a better actor and he’s choosing some interesting projects when he could have just done a big cash grab and run. I give him tons of credit for that.

  Moreover I trust Cronenberg. This film has a fantastic cast, no name wife or not.

  Comment by Evan Mowbray — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 11:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • You are not fooling anybody. LOL. You sound like a total Pattinson fangirl. If you don’t have DVDs of Twilight at home I will eat my shoe for lunch. Never heard of Samanthat Morton. Juliette Binoche is not a big “name”. Paul Giamatti is not that famous. Now this Sarah Gadon a canadian t.v. actress seals the deal of not getting good names for the movie. Everyone makes movies to be seen not to flop at the box office. Pattinson has no art house credentials. No director is perfect all the time this sounds like Cronenberg’s one off.

    Comment by Haven — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 3:55am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Just because someone like you never heard of Binoche, Morton and Giamatti doesn’t mean they’re not “big names”. FYI, they’re all well known among those who really enjoy a good movie instead of a vapid blockbuster made with braindead people like Cruise or Jolie.

      Comment by Swarley — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 7:52am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Right. Because this film would be such an easy sell with box office powerhouse Colin Farrell? Please. You’re contradicting your own arguments. You can’t argue that hiring Pattinson is selling out AND that it dooms it to flop at the box office.

      In the end, this will make a small profit, like the majority of Cronenberg films do. Because he keeps the budgets low, and goes for quality aimed at a specific audience.

      Comment by jt — Wednesday March 30, 2011 @ 12:06am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Well said.

    Comment by Eric — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 5:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• Way to go Sarah! I worked with her a couple of years ago. She’s mesmerizing. Very talented. She deserves to be seen. She’s also very funny in a classic, Carole Lombard way.

  Comment by Hudson — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 11:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• She is lovely. I trust Cronenberg. He has worked with her before, so he must be pleased with her work in “A dangerous method”.

  I like Robert Pattinson’s choices of movies. He is a fan of French movies, nouvelle vague director Jean-Luc Godard, obscure Japanese movies, he is not only into mainstream movies, although his favorite actor is Nicholson.

  Comment by rocknmovies — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 4:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• Pattinson acts with his nostrils. And he sucks the life out of every scene he’s in the Water for Elephants trailer. Cronenberg sold out by hiring Pattinson to get financing.

  Comment by tm — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 5:49am PDT  Reply to this post

• So… being a cinephile and listing Jack as his favorite actor makes RP an acting great and logic follows he’ll be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar one day? Another delusional RP fangirl. Robert Pattinson’s idea of emoting is flaring his nostrils. WFE will prove he can’t act and he’ll be relegated to doing indies no one sees just like his gf Kristen Stewart.

  Comment by YLS — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 7:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• I read the book and it is strange. It will be interesting to see what the screenwriters come up with. The movie Up in the Air was nothing like the book so maybe the movie might be good. I don’t think it’s going to make lots of money even with Rob.

  Comment by mary bradley — Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 1:00pm PDT  Reply to this post