With Call Me By Your Name receiving positive reviews and Oscar chatter, director Luca Guadagnino is lining up the people he wants to star in his next film (at least that he'll shoot once he finishes his Suspiria remake), Rio. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal are aboard and now Michelle Williams is in talks to join them.
The script comes from Locke's Steven Knight, and the film will apparently focus on two old friends, a business titan and a journalist, who meet up in an exotic locale. The financial reporter (Gyllenhaal) becomes wrapped up in a plot to fake his friend's (Cumberbatch) death. Variety's story doesn't specify what role Williams is taking, but Knight's script did have a good female lead when it was announced.
If she does sign on, Williams will work on the film once she's finished with Sony's Venom. She'll also be seen in Ridley Scott's All The Money In The World, having re-shot scenes that she'd filmed alongside Kevin Spacey, who has since been replaced with Christopher Plummer.
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