After winning the 2018 Academy Award for Best Picture for his sci-fi romance THE SHAPE OF WATER, you can be sure that Hollywood is hungry to sink their teeth into filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's next star-studded affair. As it happens, a remake of NIGHTMARE ALLEY is the in-demand director's next major project, and today we've learned that Cate Blanchett is in talks to star alongside Bradley Cooper for the dark and psychological tale.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY is based on the novel by author William Lindsay Gresham, which had previously been adapted into a Fox feature in 1947 that starred Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. The story tells the tangled yarn of an ambitious con man who partners up with a female psychiatrist for a mentalist routine, but she eventually turns the tables on him.
In addition to penning the script for NIGHTMARE ALLEY alongside Kim Morgan, del Toro will also produce with J. Miles Dale. Del Toro and Dale will also finance the film, with TSG Entertainment.
According to sources, Blanchett is exepcted play the psychologist who may of may not be trustworthy despite making a promise to Cooper's character.