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EXCLUSIVE: While the Republicans keep kicking Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s Bin Laden movie around like a political football, Annapurna Pictures and Sony Pictures are ready to get the mission underway. I’m told that Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong and Edgar Ramirez are circling to join the previously discussed ensemble cast of Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton and Chris Pratt.
The drama portrays Navy SEAL Team 6′s long hunt for the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Osama Bin Laden was finally killed in a covert mission last year. Reports today assert that the Pentagon will investigate charges made by Rep Peter King that Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker tandem Bigelow and Boal somehow got inside information about the mission from the Obama Administration in preparing the script. This saber rattling hasn’t affected the film’s progress: the script is now finished and the film is going forward. Sony Pictures has dated the film for release on December 19, deliberately steering clear of the Presidential Elections.
The prospect of Chastain joining the Bin Laden film has cast doubt on whether she will star alongside Tom Cruise in Universal’s Oblivion, which shoots in March. They apparently are trying to work out dates, but two informed sources tell me it looks dicey at the moment that she’ll do Oblivion. Chastain, who today was announced as star of a revival of The Heiress on Broadway, last year starred in Tree of Life, The Help, Take Shelter and The Debt. Strong just starred in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the upcoming John Carter while Ramirez starred in Carlos and The Bourne Ultimatum and next stars in Wrath of the Titans. All three are repped by CAA.
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Is Jennifer Ehle still a possibility?
Great cast indeed.
They should have Art Malik!
I think Deadline would save time by reporting which films Jessica Chastain is not signing on for.
Chastain is another overrated, overexposed actress. She fits the mold of not attractive enough to act as a threat to women hence her continually getting cast so as to appeal to them.
Bullldog, Jessica is not as bad as the truly overrated Michelle Williams.
AGREED!
There are lots of overrated actress these days: Chastain, Willians and Hathaway don’t have any charisma. Anna Wintour & Cia. should stop promoting their darlings.
Is Chastain playing Bin Laden???
you’re 100% wrong. shes extremely talented and very beautiful! theres something wrong with you.
While you snark about “the Republicans”, you might want to note that an official Pentagon investigation was announced today.
There is something rotten about this movie (besides Jessica Chastain). Politcal propaganda is for dictatorships, not the U. S. Hollywood should not be making politcal propaganda for the current administration’s re-election.
Well, one doesn’t really have to snark about “the Republicans,” considering the clown show they’ve been happily providing us for a year – they’re doing their own snarking.
But this movie is hardly “political propaganda for the current administration’s re-election” – which will be over before anyone sees it. They’re on a tight schedule as it is, getting it out for a December 19 release – there probably won’t even be screenings till the last week of November, if then.
Shhh, don’t confuse this guy with facts. He needs something to be furious with rage about today.
Easy to attack Repubs when you are ignorant of the facts— that the Obamabots leaked classified info to the producers/director of the film, in an effort to make the administration look good and Obama like John Wayne. This is the same information that Obama refused to share with the American people because he dictated that it is not in the interest of a free people to have the true facts thusly the information was “classified”.
“Snarking” about Repubs is not the issue— purposefully leaking classified information when at war is!
I believe Jessica Chastain is a real talent in threat of over exposure. Less is more in real movie star careers. Fine she does this, but she should say no to other projects. She deserves to be special.
How embarrassing that Kathryn Bigelo appears to be the Leni Riefenstahl of her time. To be so willingly used for (what appears to be) a propaganda piece set for release just prior to Election Day 2012. If it’s just about the SEAL’s and the intelligence to track down Bin Laden, fine.
But with this administration bending over backwards, and working so closely with the filmmakers, does anyone doubt she’ll be pressured to show it was actually Obama himself that went in with the SEAL’s and took out Bin Laden – after a karate fight, of course. Bigelo can never again claim she is an “independent” filmmaker. Spend those thirty-pieces of silver wisely Kathryn.
I completely agree about Jessica Chastain. She is completely over exposed. Just another symptom of Hollywood not giving new talent a break until they become the flavor of the month and then it’s a total feeding frenzy on a particular actor or actress. The male version of Chastain right now is Michael Fassbender. Also Tom Hardy. Last year’s model was Bradley Cooper.
Until the United States starts supporting fresh talent in low budget “lottery” type financing situations, we’re going to have a constant cannibalization of breakthrough talent (which is limited to one or two names a year). I do not want to see Chastain in another film for at least a year or two. She’s a decent enough actress who toiled in low budget dramas for a couple of years and I’m sure she’s enjoying her success, but when an audience burns out on an actor, they fizzle extremely fast. The problem is, who else is available for financing? Everyone is chasing the same guys in town: Fassbender, Hardy, Cooper, Bale, Gosling… and there aren’t enough of them to go around. Even a guy like Colin Farrell who has proven over and over that he’s not a box office draw is in huge demand. That shows you how dire the situation is. The foreign sales departments all want the bankable male stars and that’s a very short list. Crazy!