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Rachel McAdams
Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Jason Bateman have bootie-called Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren and Robin Wright Penn onto the set for State of Play. All is good, but which of the gents will have to jump on the (older) grenade?
Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren and Robin Wright Penn for State of Play
McAdams will play a reporter in the middle of a career-making story, as her newspaper investigates the death of the mistress of a fast-rising congressman. Mirren will play the newspaper's steely editor, a role undertaken by Bill Nighy in the original mini. Wright Penn will play the congressman's estranged wife. She becomes romantically involved with the pol's former campaign manager (Pitt), who leads the newspaper's investigative team. Norton plays the congressman and Bateman plays the other lead reporter.
Kevin Macdonald is directing off a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan.
An adaptation of the British miniseries, State of Play will be distributed by Universal Pictures.
McAdams had a couple recent projects including The Time Traveler's Wife and The Return. Mirren's got a couple big pics as well with National Treasure: Book of Secrets and Inkheart.
Robin Wright Penn is just as busy, with a role in What Just Happened? and a CG figure in Beowulf.
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