K.T Simpson
The ever-reliable Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to join “Nightmare Alley”, which has Guillermo del Toro directing. Del Toro also co-wrote the script with Kim Morgan.
The film is based on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name, rather than the 1947 Fox pic. The 1947 movie starred Tyrone Power as an ambitious young con-man who teams up with a female psychiatrist who is even more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy success fleecing people with their mentalist act, but then she turns the tables on him, out-manipulating the manipulator.
Del Toro is still filling out the roles, and will likely shoot in the later half of the year.
“Nightmare Alley” will be Del Toro’s next film following the Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water”, and DiCaprio is next set to star in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” this July.
News comes from Variety.
