Josh Brolin on board for Winnipeg-based film Flag Day
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Better watch out: Thanos is coming to town.
Actually, it’s actor Josh Brolin reportedly making the trip. Brolin, who played the Marvel super-villain in the 2019 blockbuster Avengers: Endgame, has joined the cast of Sean Penn’s film Flag Day, now in production in Winnipeg.
Brolin, who earned an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor for his work in the 2008 film Milk (for which Penn won the best actor award), is also favourite of the Coen brothers (No Country for Old Men, Hail, Caesar!, True Grit).
He will be joined by another Marvel properties vet, Miles Teller, who played Reed Richards in Fantastic Four (2015), but is more celebrated for his work as a jazz drumming student who finds himself in the thrall of a psychopathic instructor in Whiplash (2014).
Hollywood Reporter says the two actors will be joining the already-cast Dylan Penn and Hopper Penn for the film about a reporter coming to terms with the criminality of her father. The film is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir Flim-Flam Man: the True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.
The film will also feature an impressive array of character actors, including two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway star Norbert Leo Butz, English actor Eddie Marsan (Deadpool 2, opposite Brolin, and the upcoming The Professor and the Madman, opposite Penn). Also on board is Dale Dickey, best known for her stellar work with Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone, but also a veteran of shooting in Manitoba from her work in A Very Sordid Wedding (2017).
Flag Day is scripted by Jez Butterworth, also a Tony winner. Butterworth has worked previously with Penn, scripting the 2010 film Fair Game, alongside his brother, John Henry Butterworth.
Penn, who is starring and directing, commenced shooting last week, and is expected to continue into mid-August.
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