Caffeinated Clint
Now box-office big-timer Bradley Cooper cut his teeth on a few genre films, including “Midnight Meat Train” and “Case 39” (Not being a smart-ass and including “Hangover 3” in that lot), before segwaying into more meatier, mainstream fare. But seems the acclaimed filmmaker and actor is returning to his fright-flick roots.
The “Star is Born” thesp is in talks to headline “Hellboy” director Guillermo del Toro’s next, “Nightmare Alley”.
Cooper would play a role originally reserved for Leo DiCaprio.
The film, made once in 1947 (it starred Tyrone Power), fixes on a con-artist who teams up with a psychiatrist who is even more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy success fleecing people with their mentalist act, but then the shrink turns the tables on him, out-manipulating the manipulator.
Del Toro, whose next flick “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” (he produced that one), will direct the pic and co-wrote the script with Kim Morgan. Fox Searchlight will cough up the coin for the pic.
Cooper, still dancing in the sun shower left by awards darling “A Star is Born”, was also recently seen in Clint Eastwood’s “The Mule”.
