UPDATE: The Playlist reports that these rumors were only “half-truths”. Cruz is not confirmed to star in the film.
Penelope Cruz, you better cover your private parts. The Playlist uncovered some European news that the Nine and Broken Embraces star will lead Lars Von Trier’s psychological disaster film, Melancholia. He told Danish television that he “always had Cruz in mind and that she will in fact lead his film.” The $5 million dollar budget film is in reference to “Planet Melancholia, an enormous planet that evidently looms threateningly close to Earth.” Last October we reported Von Trier saying the film will “have no more happy endings.” I can’t imagine something more twisted and bleak than Antichrist, but if anyone can prove me wrong, it’s Von Trier. Good luck Cruz.
Melancholia will shoot in Sweden and Germany later this year and premiere at Cannes 2011.
Did you admire Antichrist? What do you think about Cruz as the lead?
