He may be best known for his 1980s film career, but Christopher Lambert is headed for the 1950s, and we don’t mean in a DeLorean. He’s joined the already sprawling, eclectic ensemble cast for Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest, **Hail, Caesar!
The film, set during one of the golden ages of the big studio system, is focused on a private detective-turned-fixer (Josh Brolin) for the movie companies, who tracks down and covers up scandals among its contracted players and directors. His current case involves him digging into the mysterious disappearance of a big star mid-way through a shoot.
Lambert is aboard to play Arne Slessum, a European filmmaker who claims to be happily married but is carrying on an affair with a starlet (Scarlett Johansson), which causes problems for the studio. He joins a cast that already boasts George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Channing Tatum, Alden Ehrenreich and Jonah Hill.
Cameras are rolling now on the film in LA, with Universal set to distribute the result next year. As for Lambert, he’s worked on indie crime pic Electric Slide and has just finished shooting the Mata Hari spy drama TV miniseries.