Oliver Stone is reuniting with Benicio Del Toro. The actor will lead the cast of Stone’s next directorial effort, White Lies. The two previously worked together on 2012’s, Savages.
The three-time Oscar winner Stone has written the script for the intimate New York-set drama, which tonally will mark a departure for the director who is known more for his gritty and big approach to most of his films. In a story covering three generations, the film will follow Jack (Del Toro), a child of divorce now repeating his parents’ mistakes in his own marriage and with his troubled son. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to free himself but only becomes more lost. When he meets a woman whose life is the opposite of his own, he begins a journey of rediscovery.
Production on the project is expected to begin in the spring of 2019 in New York. Additional casting is currently underway.
Del Toro will next be seen in the Ben Stiller-directed Showtime limited series Escape At Dannemora debuting this fall. He recently starred in Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado, Avengers: Infinity War and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Stone most recently produced and directed TV interview series The Putin Interviews, which aired on Showtime. His last movie was the 2016 feature Snowden starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as whistleblower Edward Snowden.
