Because he had so much fun making the excellent The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Brad Pitt is re-teaming with his director from that western beauty, Andrew Dominik.
Together they plan to make Cogan’s Trade, a comedy/crime drama about an investigator who’s called in to suss out a heist going down during a mob-protected poker game. It’s based on the 1974 novel by George V. Higgins which was set in Boston, and Dominik and Pitt are hoping to bring in fellow Jesse James cast members Casey Affleck and Sam Rockwell. Also on the rumor list are Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo, and if they can get all of these guys then they might have something special on their hands.
Nothing is set in stone as the project is currently being shopped around the American Film Market this week, so hopefully it’ll materialize as that’s too good of a cast to not have this thing happen.
Hollywood Reporter had the story.
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Hopefully this new flick wont be an awful Malick wannabe like his last movie. One Malick is bad enough, two I won't stand for. Did I mention AOJJBTCRF was terrible?
Anybody who thinks AOJJBTCRF is terrible is a retard. It is one of the best westerns ever made.
JESSE JAMES is one of my favorite movies of the 2000s. I've by dying for him to follow it up, but it was, what, five years between CHOPPER and JESSE? Looks like we're getting the same gap again. But this was sounds completely fantastic. And also, doesn't he have two movies going now? BLONDE with Naomi Watts? What's going on with that one?
AOJJBTCRF (acronym is as long as the fucking title) divides people: half the people I know loved it and half of them couldn't stand it. I hope they bring Nick Cave back for this new one!
I turned off Assassination. I almost never turn ANYTHING off.
This sounds nothing short of amazing.
Agree this is a boring pretentious snooze fest for cinematic poseurs only.
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