Guillermo del Toro has begun filming Nightmare Alley starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, and, of course, Ron Perlman.
“In ‘Nightmare Alley,’ an ambitious young carny (Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is,” reads the official plot synopsis according to IndieWire.
Rooney Mara will star as carnival worker Molly, Willem Dafoe plays the barker Clem, Perlman is Bruno the Strongman, and Richard Jenkins will play the tycoon Ezra Grindle. Toni Collette and David Strathairn also star in the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio was once rumored for Cooper’s part, but Variety reports that he passed after a deal fell through.
The cameras began rolling for Nightmare Alley on January 21, according to producer J. Miles Dale.
The film is an adaptation of the 1946 novel, which was made into a movie that was released in 1947.
There is no release date for Nightmare Alley, but hopefully it will join these movies in 2020.
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The del Toro adaptation was first reported by Variety in December 2017, less than two weeks after The Shape of Water was first released. Del Toro is writing the script with Kim Morgan, who is one of Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema bloggers.
It’s del Toro’s follow-up to The Shape of Water, which was the director’s second-biggest hit at the box office behind Pacific Rim. He also beat out Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Jordan Peele’s Get Out for the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture.
Many of the crew members from The Shape of Water have returned for this production. Production designer Luis Sequeira, cinematographer Dan Laustsen, visual effects supervisor Dennis Berardi, and editor Cam McLauchlin are reuniting with the legendary director. Production designer Tamara Deverell, who previously worked on del Toro’s FX series The Strain, is on board for Nightmare Alley.
Nightmare Alley does not have a release date yet.
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Source: IGN.com Guillermo del Toro Begins Filming Nightmare Alley