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- Tom McCarthy has gathered the cast for his next movie.
- Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany are among them.
- Sony Pictures Classics is backing the film.
Locking in a cast for a relatively lower budget movie can be a challenge, but it certainly helps when you have the Oscar-winning pedigree of ‘Spotlight’ filmmaker Tom McCarthy.
Deadline brings word that he’s got quite the cast for his latest, which will star the likes of Paul Rudd (‘Ant-Man’), Paul Giamatti (‘Sideways’) and Tatiana Maslany (‘Orphan Black’).
20069405And that’s just a small sample; the ensemble will also include Evan Peters (‘American Horror Story’), Amy Ryan (‘Birdman’), John Turturro (‘Severance’) and Jason Clarke (‘Zero Dark Thirty’).
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What’s the story of Tom McCarthy’s new movie?
McCarthy worked alongside Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré to adapt Nathaniel Rich’s book ‘Losing Earth’, and the true story is set at a beachside resort in Florida in 1980, when twenty experts gather for a weekend conference on a global issue that is starting to gain traction: the effects of Co2 emissions on the climate.
The group of scientists, activists, and policymakers have one simple mandate from Congress — write a statement about what to do. Easier said than done.
The actor/writer/director is scheduled to start the cameras cranking next month on what is described as a darkly comic drama.
What else has Tom McCarthy made?
In addition to ‘Spotlight, which won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 2016 Academy Awards, McCarthy has also directed movies including ‘The Visitor’, ‘Stillwater’ and ‘The Cobbler’.
As a writer he’s worked on the likes of ‘The Station Agent’ and ‘Million Dollar Arm’ and keeps his hand in as an actor, appearing recently on ‘The Lowdown’ and ‘The Friend’.
List of Paul Rudd Movies and TV Shows:
- ‘Friends’ (1994 – 2004)
- ‘Clueless’ (1995)
- ‘Romeo + Juliet‘ (1996)
- ‘The Cider House Rules‘ (2000)
- ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ (2002)
- ‘Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy’ (2004)
- ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’ (2005)
- ‘Night at the Museum‘ (2006)
- ‘Knocked Up‘ (2007)
- ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall‘ (2008)
- ‘Role Models‘ (2008)
- ‘I Love You, Man’ (2009)
- ‘Dinner for Schmucks‘ (2010)
- ‘How Do You Know‘ (2010)
- ‘This Is 40’ (2012)
- ‘Wanderlust‘ (2012)
- ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower‘ (2012)
- ‘Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues‘ (2013)
- ‘Ant-Man’ (2015)
- ‘Captain America: Civil War‘ (2016)
- ‘Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later‘ (2017)
- ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp‘ (2018)
- ‘Avengers: Endgame’ (2019)
- ‘Living with Yourself‘ (2019)
- ‘The Shrink Next Door’ (2021)
- ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife‘ (2021)
- ‘Only Murders in the Building‘ (2021 – 2024)
- ‘What If…?‘ (2021 – 2024)
- ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania‘ (2023)
- ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem‘ (2023)
- ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire‘ (2024)
- ‘Death of a Unicorn’ (2025)
- ‘Avengers: Doomsday‘ (2026)
