While they won’t be screening at the festival, the Cannes marketplace provides a look at a large batch of projects with a variety of materials. Today we have a handful of posters from a few films we’re looking forward to, courtesy of Film Divider. First up is Justin Kurzel‘s redo of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which has the idyllic pairing of Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
While the pair of posters can be seen below, Cotillard recently spoke to Variety regarding the project, saying, “It’s the first time I’ve played a character with no light, total darkness. And when she loses control … I’m affected by the character I live with when I’m shooting, so I lost control of everything, like her, and it was really hard to handle.” Fassbender added, “She’s got so much courage just to take on the part in the first place. She’s quite a quiet person, but onscreen she’s just electric. I didn’t have to discuss any ideas that I wanted to do, anything that came to mind during a take. I would just do it, and she always responded. She’s just very easy to work with. Zero drama, except what’s in the scene.”
Next up, we have a new poster for the Terrence Malick-produced Abraham Lincoln biopic The Better Angels. Set to be released this fall, we were major fans of it at Sundance Film Festival and had a chance to sit down with A.J. Edwards to discuss his directorial debut. Check out the poster below which sells quite an origin story if there ever was one, and see our coverage of the film here.
After long being rumored it looks like a remake to Juan José Campanella‘s Oscar-winning The Secret in Their Eyes is finally moving forward. Coming from writer-director Billy Ray (Breach, Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games), the project has just added Chiwetel Ejiofor and Gwyneth Paltrow in the lead roles following the story of a former agent who joins the FBI, obsessed with an unsolved murder. Production kicks off this fall in Boston and one can see the sales poster below.
Lastly, Sean Penn will be making his action debut with director of Taken, Pierre Morel, for The Gunman. With a strong supporting cast including Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, the film revolves around Martin Terrier (Penn), a hitman whose plans to get out of the game with his true love (Jasmine Trinca) go awry when his company prove traitorous. Soon, a Europe-spanning journey of bloody deaths begins. Check out the early poster below for the film likely getting a release next year.
Which of the above films are you most anticipating?