Benedict Cumberbatch To Lead James Gray’s ‘The Lost City Of Z’
By Angie Han/Sept. 4, 2013 5:00 pm EST
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The project has been developing for years, but this is the first major step forward we’ve heard about in quite some time. James Gray (We Own the Night) remains attached to direct from his own adapted screenplay. Hit the jump to get some background on the project, and to learn more about Fawcett’s fascinating story.
But Cumberbatch is a very good get, too. Since breaking out internationally with the BBC drama Sherlock, he’s quickly become one of the most in-demand actors working today. He has five movies opening this year alone: this spring’s Star Trek Into Darkness, plus the upcoming The Fifth Estate, 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County, and The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.
Next year will see him starring in The Hobbit: There and Back Again, as well as the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game. The recent Star Wars talk seemed supported, slightly, by Cumberbatch’s sudden and unexplained departure from Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, but now it seems likely that The Lost City of Z was the true culprit. Either that, or the guy just wants to take a well-deserved nap.
The 37-year-old Cumberbatch seems a bit young for the part, since the real Fawcett was in his 57 when he disappeared with his 21-year-old son. Otherwise, though, he seems to have the intelligence and charisma to make it work. Do you think Cumberbatch is a good choice?
[Source: Deadline]
