Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep) is assembling an all-star cast for his next feature film project, The Death of Stalin, which is based upon Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s 2011 graphic novel and explores the political infighting in the days following the death of the Soviet leader in 1953.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Timothy Dalton, Toby Kebbel, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine and Andrea Riseborough are all in advanced negotiations to join the satire. Buscemi is set to play Stalin’s successor Nikita Khrushchev, with Tambor portraying Georgy Malenkov and Dalton as Georgy Zhukov.
The Death of Stalin will mark Iannucci’s second feature film following 2009’s In the Loop, a spinoff from the BBC series The Thick of It.
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