Bradley Cooper Is in Talks for Guillermo del Toros Nightmare Alley
While we were busy obsessively decoding Bradley Coopers breakup, the Star Is Born director and star ..
While we were busy obsessively decoding Bradley Coopers breakup, the Star Is Born director and star was lining up a major new project. Cooper is apparently in early talks to join Guillermo del Toros next film—an adaptation of William Lindsay Greshams 1946 con man classic Nightmare Alley.
Per Variety, Cooper has only been floated an offer for the moment, but is seen as a likely frontrunner to take the lead role of Stan Carlisle after Leonardo DiCaprio passed. Del Toro is directing from a script co-written with Kim Morgan for Fox Searchlight—the same studio behind del Toros Oscar-winner The Shape of Water.
The story—which itself was adapted previously in 1947, with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell—follows Stan Carlisle, a con man who teams up with a female psychiatrist for a mentalist act, but himself winds up on the receiving end of her manipulation. Based more on the original 1946 novel than its adaptation, dRead More – Source
