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Marion Cotillard, who was nominated for an Oscar for role as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, is to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in Public Enemies, the Depression-era crime drama directed by Michael Mann.
The movie is an adaptation of the Brian Burrough book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43. It tells the story of government efforts to stop the notorious criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd.
Depp is playing Dillinger with Bale set to play FBI agent Melvin Purvis. Dillinger was one of the most well-known crime figures from the early 1930s, responsible for a string of daring heists before eventually being shot dead by police in a Chicago ambush in 1934 aged 31.
Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarke are also joining the cast.
The Oscar-nominated “La Vie en rose” star Cotillard will play Billie Frechette, the lover of the country’s most notorious gangster, John Dillinger (Depp).
Tatum will play outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd, Ribisi will play Alvin Karpis, Dorff is near a deal to play Homer Van Meter, and Clarke will play John “Red” Hamilton. That quartet repped a Dillinger gang that knocked off banks all over the Midwest during the Depression.
Bale plays Melvin Purvis, who was tapped by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to lead a manhunt that established the FBI as the country’s first federal police force after the G-Men killed Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in 1934.
Production is due to start later this winter in Chicago and other Midwestern locales. (Source - Variety)
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March 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I don’t think Johnny Depp should accept working with Marion Cotillard. She is not worthy. Are you aware of this?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/01/wcotillard101.xml - And if you don’t believe it, here is the video: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=D6JltVP7fYI
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 am
she is not worthy cos she made some comments? even i think that 9/11 was a conspiracy. Why dont u watch some of those documentaries..there wasnt solid proof…so its still debatable. Just cos she said that doesnt mean her worthiness is gone or something.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Maybe La Vie in Rose will be the only movie for which she will be remembered. I am Johnny’s devoted fan and I will hate to see him working with such a stupid woman. You don’t believe what happened on 9/11? Too bad. I lost lots of friends that day and they were not the ’suicidal’ type. Sorry you are as ignorant as that French woman.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
i never said…anything about suicides…i just said that the whole thing might have been a setup…u really do need to watch those documentaries cos they talk with lot of proof. Whether 9/11 was setup or not has nothing to do with ur friends. Marion Cotillard just gave her opinion on what she believes might have happened. Atleast she had the guts to say it out to the media.