Cotillard making 'Enemies' (Johnny Depp Reads Message Board)

Title: Cotillard making 'Enemies'

Karen - January 28, 2008 02:37 AM (GMT)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...943cd31dfa9d58e

Cotillard making 'Enemies'
By Borys Kit

Jan 27, 2008

Marion Cotillard, who was nominated for an Oscar for her star turn in "La Vie en Rose," is in negotiations to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in "Public Enemies," Universal's Depression-era crime drama being directed by Michael Mann.

An adaptation of Brian Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43," the story follows the government's attempt to stop the criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd. Depp is playing Dillinger to Bale's famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis.

Cotillard will play Billie, Dillinger's torch singer girlfriend.

Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman wrote the script.

Production is due to start later this winter in Chicago and other Midwest locales.

Mann and Kevin Misher are producing. Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal, who originally optioned the book, are exec producing.

"Enemies" is not Cotillard's first English-language feature. The French actress has appeared in, among other English productions, "A Good Year," with Russell Crowe.

Cotillard is repped by CAA.

FANtasticJD - January 28, 2008 02:45 AM (GMT)

Cotillard was simply amazing in La Vie en Rose and I hope and pray she does PE. She and Johnny would be wonderful together. This project is really coming together very very nicely. I'm tremendously excited about it.

NOTE: Karen, I just cross-posted this in the news forum. Please delete it!

deppaholic - January 28, 2008 02:54 AM (GMT)

Excellent choice---I think she would be perfect! I also thought she was incredible in La Vie en Rose, and she's my choice for the Oscar.
I do hope this works out..... :crossfingers
Rose

herestoyou - January 28, 2008 04:08 AM (GMT)

I agree--this is great news--she is really quite an amazing actress. If it can't be Rachel Weisz, then I hope Cotillard gets the part--they would make a great looking couple. Guess I'll be rooting for the bad guys again in this one-lol! Wonder who will play BFNelson?

-Donna

Karen - January 28, 2008 04:45 AM (GMT)

Thanks Fan for the other post and thanks Donna for catching it! ;)

FANtasticJD - January 28, 2008 04:46 AM (GMT)

The Variety report lists a few additional actors lined up for the film. I'm not familiar with them.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797971...egoryid=13&cs=1

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Michael Mann rounds up 'Enemies'
Cotillard joins Depp, Bale in crime drama
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Cotillard

Director Michael Mann has set Marion Cotillard to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in "Public Enemies."
The Depression-era crime drama gets under way in Chicago on March 10 for Universal Pictures.

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.

The shooting script was written by Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman and Mann. Mann will produce with Kevin Misher. Jane Rosenthal is exec producer.

U, Mann and Misher spent several years developing the film, which came together quickly after the postponement of Depp's expected spring slot, the Warner Bros. drama "Shantaram."

Cotillard is available because the Weinstein Co. postponed "Nine," the Rob Marshall-directed musical she is still expected to star in with Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Sophia Loren. Moving that project forward was a key reason TWC signed an interim deal with the Writer's Guild of America.

Tatum was available after United Artists halted the Oliver Stone-directed "Pinkville." Ribisi has been shooting the James Cameron-directed "Avatar," and Clarke most recently wrapped the Jada Pinkett Smith-directed "The Human Contract" as well as the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed "Death Race."

Karen - January 28, 2008 04:51 AM (GMT)

Interesting casting...I can't see Ribisi as Karpis....but I guess I will. LOL Channing Tatum as PB Floyd? eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

herestoyou - January 28, 2008 05:22 AM (GMT)

Well that is definitely an interesting group! I'm really not familiar with many of these guys even though I think I've seen some of the films they've been involved with at some point. They do have interesting looks........

-Donna

MissCaptainWeird - January 28, 2008 06:09 AM (GMT)

this movie will be great!! Quite a varied cast!! Lucky Marion!!!
It will be quite a change for Johnny going from Sweeney Todd and having to sing, and now gong to be Dillinger!! How fun for him!!

MissCaptainWeird - January 28, 2008 06:12 AM (GMT)

I am not quite sure where to post this~
but here is alink to a photo of John Dillinger.

I am sure they will have to do some sort of make up on Johnny.

http://www.troydillinger.com/images/dillinger.jpg

Karen - January 28, 2008 01:21 PM (GMT)

QUOTE (MissCaptainWeird @ Jan 28 2008, 12:12 AM)

Thanks for the pic, I don't think they will try to make Johnny look exactly like Dillinger. Johnny will come up with his own vision of him as a character.

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