Russell Crowe To See A Winter's Tale?

Playing an architect in the apocalypseNope, he is not playing Leontes or Polixenes, or covering David Kent tunes along with his band. The Winter's Tale that Russell Crowe may be associated with is founded on the miracle realist novel by Mark Helprin, and marks the directorial debut of film author Akiva Goldsman.Occur a fairytale, fantastical, turn-of-the-century NY, it calls for an appreciation story between orphaned Irish crook Peter Lake as well as the dying Beverly Penn, inhabitant from the upper-West-Side mansion he targets. Which fits little approach to explaining a novel that involves vision quests, NY street gangs, protector angel flying white-colored horses and messianic self-sacrifice. Lake also vanishes for quite some time, hence the Shakespeare-riffing title. Nobody can get attacked having a bear though.Rather than Lake, THR's story states that Crowe is "loosely attached" to see "the villain" inside the film. There's nothing quite that apparent-cut inside the novel, but we're taking a chance the antagonist they're talking about is Jackson Mead, a specialist bridge builder planning to make a structure so incredible that it's going to appeal to God making the conclusion around the world.Goldsman was motivated to produce a Winter's Tale his first foray behind the digital camera by its fantastical elements by its eulogising of his native NY. The story looks being impacting on others too: Tom Hiddleston and Benjamin Master are apparently inside the running for your role of Lake, while Bella Heathcote, Elizabeth Olson, Gabrielle Wilde and Sarah Gadon have attended "chemistry reads" for negligence Penn.It's under all systems go though, as Warners appear keen to discover a third-party partner to help stump within the budget, thought at $75m back at the outset of this year. That's a great deal for just about any project as strange as that certain, to make sure that eventual cast will participate putting together as strong a package as you can to draw traders...