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Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen to star

posted 11 years ago by Nomad310
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EXCLUSIVE: The hacker from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and the President from The West Wing have joined Working Title’s Trash. Martin Sheen and Rooney Mara are set for the Stephen Daldry-directed film that Richard Curtis adapted from Andy Mulligan’s 2010 novel.

Sheen will play Father Juilliard, and Mara will play Olivia, an NGO worker, in the tale of three poverty-stricken boys (played by newcomers Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luis and Gabriel Weinstein) who discover something unusual, mysterious and dangerous in a city dump in the Third World-set story. Elysium’s Wagner Moura and Os Maias’ Selton Mello have also been cast in the movie, from Working Title Films, PeaPie Films and 02 Filmes.

It is scheduled to start production in Rio de Janeiro early next month. Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with PeaPie’s Kris Thykier. Universal will distribute the film globally when it comes out in May 2014. The studio is also bringing out Curtis’ About Time with Working Title on November 1 this year. Sheen is repped by ICM Partners; Mara is repped by WME and Management 360.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/trash-movie-rooney-mara-martin-sheen-s tephen-daldry-richard-curtis/

[–] thomas998 9 years ago

If they are stars it is only because the producers are trying to use their names to drive ticket sales. They aren't in it that much and if there were any honesty by the producers would not have gotten star billing, they are supporting players.

[–] Lava-Rocks 8 years ago

Check out the credits.
I think Sheen downplayed his role, intentionally.