Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle’s ode to the golden age of Hollywood, Babylon, is coming together as it nears the start of production later in June.
Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, Flea, Rory Scovel, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, P.J. Byrne and Damon Gupton have joined the Paramount period drama written by Chazelle, who will also direct. The actors join an already stacked cast that stars Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie, Academy Award winner Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Katherine Waterston.
Babylon is set
” in the late 1920s during the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies, Babylon explores the rise and fall of multiple characters. Around town, the project has been described as “The Great Gatsby on steroids.”
“The story features both fictional and historical characters. While most of the new additions’ roles are being kept in the canister, it is believed that Minghella is playing Irving Thalberg, the famous producer who was MGM’s head of production in the 1920s and 1930s and after whom the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award, given by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, is named.”
