As if Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s **The Revenant **wasn’t already loaded down with great talent, plus some chancer named Leonardo DiCaprio, the director is adding one more solid actor to the line-up. Domhnall Gleeson is now in negotiations.
Adapted from Michael Punke’s novel by Mark L. Smith and the director, The Revenant follows an ill-fated fur trapping expedition to chilly 1820s South Dakota. Hunter Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) is mauled by a bear in the harsh climate, and his companions leave him for dead. To add insult to injury, two men are assigned to bury what everyone assumes is his dead body. But the greedy pair decides to rob him and leave him helpless instead. Glass recovers, and swears bloody revenge...
Gleeson joins a cast that already includes the aforementioned Leo plus Tom Hardy and Will Poulter, creating quite the line-up. Iñárritu plans to put them through hell in a couple of months.
As for Gleeson’s current gigs, he was most recently seen alongside his father Brendan in Calvary and will appear in Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken and techno thriller Ex Machina. Oh, and he’s also at work on some small other science-fiction project that features robots, Jedis and Wookiees, and has the potential for a war among the stars. It'll be out in December 15 next year, but we can’t think what it’s called for the life of us.