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James Gray has retained the services of his “We Own the Night” star (in fact, this will be the actor’s fourth film with Gray) Joaquin Phoenix for “Low Life”, the story of a woman (to be played by “Inception” actress Marion Cotillard) who is forced to turn prostitute in order to save her ailing sibling.
Deadline says Jeremy Renner is also expected to join Phoenix and Cotillard in the flick, which tells of ”a woman attempting to immigrate from Poland. Her American dream turns into a nightmare. While sailing to Ellis Island and a new start, her sister grows deathly ill and she is forced to trade sexual favors for medicine and food to keep her sister alive. Once they land, she is warned to keep quiet about what happened. Though she does, she walks away with immigration papers that deem her a woman with bad morals. With no place to go, she falls prey to a charming sleazebag (Phoenix), who persuades her to turn tricks in New York. Renner is close to signing on to play the sleazebag’s cousin, a magician who sweeps the young woman off her feet and is her best chance to escape the nightmarish life she has fallen into.”
Filming will begin next year, once Phoenix wraps the untitled Paul Thomas Anderson flick, Cotillard’s done with “Dark Knight Rises” and Renner’s completed the new “Bourne” film.
