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Book Review: 'Rainer on Film' Bennett Miller's True Story of Olympian Murder 'Foxcatcher' Goes to Columbia; Stars Carell, Ruffalo, Tatum & Miller
The film, currently in production, stars Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Michael Hall.
Based on a true story long-in-development by Miller, the film is written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman (Miller's "Capote") . The story follows John du Pont, a multimillionaire and paranoid schizophrenic who built a wrestling training facility named Foxcatcher on his personal estate in Pennsylvania. In 1996, Du Pont murdered his longtime friend and Olympic gold medal winning wrestler David Schultz, whom he was convinced was part of a conspiracy to kill him. Carell plays Du Pont, in a drastically darker role than we're used to seeing him in (his suicidal Proust scholar in "Little Miss Sunshine" is the darkest we've seen him, and it was still hilarious), while Ruffalo plays Schultz. Tatum and Miller play Schultz's brother and wife.
Annapurna is backing a number of class-act pictures ("The Master," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lawless," "Killing Them Softly"). Audiences don't have to worry about whether they cost too much to make their money back; that's Ellison's prerogative.
A fall 2013 release is planned.
1 Comment
jingmei | November 4, 2012 6:09 AM
Glad to see a serious Steve Carell. Why Channing Tatum appears in so many awesome films with cool directors and actors, but still don't like him.