22 Jump Street star Channing Tatum is the latest name set to be added to the new Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar!. Tatum is said to be in negotiations along with Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive) to feature in the cast, joining George Clooney (Gravity) and Josh Brolin (Oldboy) who have previously signed on to the project.
The film, which is set for release in 2015, is about a man maned Eddie Mannix, who is a Hollywood fixer in the 1950’s. Star Clooney said back in 2005 that the film would be the conclusion of his “idiot” trilogy with the Coens, after he featured in Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (he has since teamed with them for Burn After Reading).
Not much else is know on the project, but The Hollywood Reporter have said that Tatum’s part is a Hollywood star in the style of Gene Kelly, while Fiennes is set to feature as Hollywood director named Laurence Lorenz, and Swinton a Hollywood gossip queen.
We are huge fans of the Coens’ work here at Myth Towers, so naturally we’re looking forward to this. Leave us your thoughts below…
Originally published June 24, 2014. Updated April 15, 2018.
