Mirren, McAdams join Pitt and Norton in State of Play
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oi-Staff
By Super Admin
Thursday,
September
27,
2007
Washington
(ANI):
Oscar
winner
Helen
Mirren,
Rachel
McAdams
and
Robin
Wright
Penn
have
signed
on
to
star
alongside
Brad
Pitt
and
Edward
Norton
in
'State
of
Play".
The
movie
will
see
Norton
playing
a
congressman
whose
speedy
political
rise
is
threatened
by
an
investigation
into
the
death
of
his
mistress.
Pitt
will
be
playing
the
role
of
the
politician's
former
campaign
manager
whose
relationship
with
congressman
is
compromised
when
he
oversees
his
newspaper's
investigation
into
the
murder
and
develops
a
relationship
with
the
politician's
estranged
wife,
to
be
played
by
Wright
Penn.
McAdams
will
play
a
reporter
in
the
middle
of
a
career-making
story,
while
Mirren
will
play
the
newspaper's
steely
editor,
a
role
undertaken
by
Bill
Nighy
in
the
original
mini.
Also
already
on
board
to
star
in
the
Universal
Pictures'
adaptation
of
the
British
miniseries
is
Jason
Bateman,
the
other
lead
reporter
in
the
movie,
reports
Variety.
Kevin
Macdonald
is
directing,
with
Matthew
Michael
Carnahan
penning
the
script.
Andrew
Hauptman
is
producing
with
Working
Title
partners
Tim
Bevan
and
Eric
Fellner.
Paul
Abbott,
who
wrote
the
six-hour
mini,
is
exec
producer.