Javier Bardem signed on for two new projects on Wednesday - director J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year and The Gunman with Sean Penn.
A Most Violent Year will be the next from from Chandor, the director who impressed critics with Margin Call and wowed the Cannes audience with All Is Lost starring Robert Redford. According to Deadline, the project will give Bardem a rare chance to play the good guy. Filming in New York will start in the fall and Before The Door’s Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb are producing.
Like his previous films, Chandow also wrote the script for A Most Violent Year.
According to The Wrap, the film is set in 1983 and stars Bardem as the head of a heating oil empire trying to keep the company together. He and his wife have to work against a corrupt government and various shady characters. Charlize Theron was offered the wife part, but passed.
Bardem will get to be a villain in The Gunman, the next project from Taken director Pierre Morel. He’s still in talks for the part and would star opposite Penn.
Bardem won his Oscar for playing a killer in No Country For Old Men and played the villain in Skyfall. His next film is Ridley Scott’s The Counselor with Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.
