News for the upcoming drama, Foxcatcher, has been trickling in for just about a year now, but the casting is still coming in left and right. Steve Carell signed on for the picture last September, with Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Sienna Miller following suit since then. Now, according to Variety, Anthony Michael Hall has been cast in the drama.
The project is based on the true story of John du Pont, with E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman providing the screenplay about “the paranoid schizophrenic heir to the du Pont chemical fortune who built a wrestling training facility called Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate.” Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) will step behind the camera and provide the directing talent.
Ruffalo is set to play “Olympic grappler Dave Schultz, a longtime friend of du Pont who had repeatedly tried to help him before du Pont shot and killed him in 1996.” Carell will be playing du Pont, with Hall providing the role of his assistant. Miller has been set to co-star as Ruffalo‘s wife, with Tatum playing Mark Schultz, “David’s younger brother who was also an Olympic wrestler.” The Magic Mike star recently noted that this project has been “the hardest acting challenge [he’s] had to date.”
As if we need any reminder — but just in case — Hall got his start in Hollywood back in the 1980’s, starring in comedies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. Since then, he shifted to some TV work starring in The Dead Zone from 2002-2007. More recently, he appeared in The Dark Knight, and will be seen next in the indie feature, Sexy Evil Genius, with Seth Green and Katee Sackhoff.
Megan Ellison will produce and finance alongside Anthony Bregman and Miller. Production on Foxcatcher will start up this month in Pittsburgh.