Leonardo DiCaprio is in negotiations to star in “Nightmare Alley,” director Guillermo Del Toro’s follow-up to the Best Picture-winning film “The Shape of Water,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Fox Searchlight has acquired the worldwide rights to release the film, which is being produced and financed by Del Toro and J. Miles Dale with Tsg Entertainment.
Del Toro is directing the film based on his own screenplay he co-wrote with Kim Morgan. “Nightmare Alley” is based on the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham, which was made into a 1947 Fox movie that starred Tyrone Powell and Joan Blondell about a deceitful, mentalist and con-man whose lies prove to be his downfall after he starts a relationship with an even more corrupt female psychiatrist.
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The plan is for “Nightmare Alley” to...
Fox Searchlight has acquired the worldwide rights to release the film, which is being produced and financed by Del Toro and J. Miles Dale with Tsg Entertainment.
Del Toro is directing the film based on his own screenplay he co-wrote with Kim Morgan. “Nightmare Alley” is based on the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham, which was made into a 1947 Fox movie that starred Tyrone Powell and Joan Blondell about a deceitful, mentalist and con-man whose lies prove to be his downfall after he starts a relationship with an even more corrupt female psychiatrist.
Also Read: 'Akira' Movie From Leonardo DiCaprio Among 18 Features Approved for California Tax Credit
The plan is for “Nightmare Alley” to...
- 4/23/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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