"Sherlock Homes" actor Jude Law joins "Side Effects" actress Rooney Mara in the musical drama "Vox Lux." "The Childhood of a Leader" director Brady Corbet will be helming it.
Mara will play the pop star Celeste in "Vox Lux." Law will play as Celeste's manager, Variety reported. Grammy-nominated artist Sia will provide original songs for the soundtrack of the said musical drama.
"Vox Lux" follows Celeste as she rises from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop superstardom. This 15-year odyssey is set between 1999 and the present day. It tracks the important cultural revolutions of the 21st century through her eyes.
"Vox Lux" will be shot on 65mm large-format film and exhibit on 70mm large-format film. It will be helped again by Kodak from an equity and marketing perspective. According to The Hollywood Reporter, president Steve Bellamy of Kodak Motion Picture said that the company is doing everything they can to help find and nurture those next master craftsmen like Corbet because they will shortly become the future P.T. Andersons, Christopher Nolans, Quentin Tarantinos, J.J. Abrams, and Steven Spielbergs.
"Vox Lux" marks the follow-up to Corbet's Venice Film Festival double award winner "The Childhood of a Leader." It will be produced by Killer Films' Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa alongside Three Six Zero Entertainment's Brian Young.
Law was most recently seen in Paolo Sorrentino's miniseries "The Young Pope" that premiered at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival and will bow on HBO in January next year. He is expected to be seen next as the villain named Vortigern in Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" and is set to return to the London theater in an adaptation of the Luchino Visconti film "Obsession." He is repped by WME, LBI Entertainment, and Julian Belfrage Associates.
Mara will next be seen in The Weinstein Co.'s drama "Lion," opposite Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. The two-time Oscar-nominated actress is also attached to star in Weinstein's "Mary Magdalene" biopic from "Lion" director Garth Davis. She is repped by WME and Management 360.
The production of "Vox Lux" is set to begin in February next year.
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