EXCLUSIVE: J.Okay. Simmons is boarding the David Ayer-directed Paramount Footage film Coronary heart of the Beast reverse Brad Pitt.
It’s the second time that the Whiplash Oscar winner has labored with Ayer after the 2005 Christian Bale crime drama Harsh Occasions, and the third time he’s starred in a Pitt film after 2001’s The Mexican and the Coen brothers’ George Clooney-Frances McDormand 2008 comedy caper Burn After Studying.
Deadline first instructed you about Coronary heart of the Beast, which follows a former Military Particular Forces soldier and his retired fight canine who battle for survival after a aircraft crash deep within the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. Cameron Alexander penned the script and can government produce.
Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton are producing below their Wild Chickens Productions banner as a part of their first-look take care of the studio. Different producers embrace Ayer below his Crave Movies banner, Temple Hill Leisure, and two-time Oscar winner Pitt below his Plan B banner. Richard Raymond is co-producing.
Simmons gained a Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar, Golden Globe and SAG Award for his flip as an acerbic music professor in 2014’s Whiplash. He’s identified for his position as J. Jonah Jameson in Sony’s Spider-Man motion pictures, each Sam Raimi’s and Jon Watts’ titles. Different function credit embrace La La Land, Juno, Saturday Evening, the Dwyane Johnson-Chris Evans Christmas film Crimson One, in addition to Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos wherein he performed William Frawley, for which he obtained his second Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
He’s repped by Gersh.
