Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez are set to co-star with Michael Fassbender in the next film directed by “Brutalist” director Brady Corbet.
During a master class at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, Blanchett divulged that she was “going to be working with Brady Corbett on a movie.” Variety has confirmed that she has indeed been cast in the Oscar-nominated director’s next film, which will also star Gomez in addition to Fassbender. Insider previously reported on Gomez’s casting.
Plot details for the as-yet-untitled film are being shrouded in secrecy, but Corbett has said in an interview that he is trying to make an “adult” feature set in the ’70s. “This movie spans from the 19th century to the present day, and it just focuses primarily on the ’70s. This movie really, really defies genre,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. It is also said that the photo was taken using an extremely rare 8-perf 65mm camera.
At the Storyhouse Screenplay Festival in Dublin last month, Corbett teased that his new film will be a feature, saying the script is 200 pages long. In comparison, “The Brutalist” had a 165-page script and a running time of three and a half hours.
Andrew Morrison is producing the next Corvette project for his Kaplan Morrison production banner. This will be Corbett’s fourth feature film, having previously directed 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader and 2018’s Vox Lux.
Representatives for Blanchett and Gomez did not immediately respond to Variety’s requests for comment.
Oscar-winning actor Blanchett has worked with directors such as Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, David Fincher, and Wes Anderson. She recently starred in Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, which won the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Katharine Hepburn in Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004), and picked up the Best Actress trophy for Woody Allen’s 2013 drama Blue Jasmine.
In addition to being a global pop star and founder of the makeup brand Rare Beauty, Gomez also has a long acting career. After getting her start in Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place series, Gomez broke out in Harmony Korine’s 2012 blockbuster Spring Breakers, and most recently starred in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, for which she won the Best Actress Award at Cannes alongside Zoe Saldaña, Carla Sofia Gascón and Adriana Paz. She also directed five seasons of the Hulu series “Only Murders of the Building,” which received an Emmy nomination and was renewed for a sixth season.
Elsa Keslassy contributed to this report.
