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Three-time Oscar victor Oliver Stone is underway connected caller movie White Lies, which marks his first communicative characteristic successful a decade. Josh Hartnett (Oppenheimer) stars successful nan movie, which Deadline tin corroborate and uncover much specifications astir today.
The Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July and JFK director has written and will nonstop nan original feature, which is described to america a departure from his erstwhile work, being an friendly portion that explores “family, nonaccomplishment and symptom and really emotion tin alteration style successful nan people of our lifetimes”.
In a communicative told crossed 3 generations, nan pic “follows Jack Freeman (Hartnett), a kid of divorcement now repeating his parents’ mistakes successful his ain matrimony and pinch his ain children. Feeling trapped, he embarks connected a lust-filled travel to free himself—only to find himself much mislaid than before. When he meets a woman, whose life is nan other of his own, he originates an unexpected travel of rediscovery.”
Stone told america today: “After astir 10 years distant from features, I consciousness really for illustration I’m starting again, arsenic erstwhile I made Platoon and Salvador successful 1986. White Lies will find its earthy home, because it’s an eternal communicative of love.”
Hartnett said of nan project: “Oliver explores a beingness successful White Lies that feels individual and wholly caller worldly from a filmmaker I person agelong admired and americium excited to activity with.”
Principal photography has begun and takes spot crossed world locations including Rome, Bangkok and Sofia. Additional casting will beryllium revealed shortly.
The movie is produced by Fernando Sulichin alongside Maximilien Arvelaiz and Jordan Gertner for Sulichin’s New Element Media, which produced Stone’s Savages and Snowden and aggregate different projects. Tarak Ben Ammar and Gianluca Leurini for Eagle Pictures service arsenic executive producers, arsenic do James Packer and Jose Luis Manzano, some longtime collaborators of Sulichin.
Stone has been trying to make White Lies for much than a decade. Eight years agone a type had Benicio Del Toro attached to star. The head has concentrated much precocious connected documentaries. World Of Reel first had news of Hartnett’s casting and nan task nearing shoot.
“We consciousness incredibly blessed that Oliver Stone, who has specified an bonzer and unique voice, is backmost penning and directing a communicative characteristic movie for nan first clip since Snowden,” remarked Sulichin. “Stone has written aliases directed immoderate of nan astir influential films of nan past decades and pinch White Lies he returns to original and timeless storytelling that audiences emotion from him. Josh Hartnett is an character of singular extent and instinct, and precisely who this communicative calls for.”
Hartnett stars successful nan upcoming Amazon/MGM movie Verity opposite Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson from writer Colleen Hoover.
Hartnett is represented by Entertainment 360, Verve and Sloane, Offer. Stone is represented by John Burnham of Atlas Artists.
