Blanchett, Gomez Join Corbet's 'X-Rated' 70s Film
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- Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez are cast in Brady Corbet's untitled next film alongside Michael Fassbender, with Variety confirming the news after Blanchett mentioned the project during a Cannes masterclass Sunday
- Brady Corbet has described the untitled feature as "X-rated" and "really, really genre-defying," predominantly set in the 1970s but spanning the 19th century to the present day, and reportedly being shot on rare eight-perf 65mm cameras
- The script runs 200 pages — 35 pages longer than "The Brutalist," which had a three-and-a-half hour runtime — signaling another lengthy Corbet feature
- Andrew Morrison is producing via his Kaplan Morrison banner, making this Corbet's fourth directorial feature after "The Childhood of a Leader" (2015), "Vox Lux" (2018), and "The Brutalist"
- Blanchett most recently starred in Jim Jarmusch's "Father Mother Sister Brother," which won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, and holds Oscars for "The Aviator" and "Blue Jasmine"
- Gomez won a Cannes best actress award for "Emilia Pérez," earned an Emmy nomination for "Only Murders in the Building" (renewed for a sixth season), and is founder of Rare Beauty
Why it matters: Corbet's "The Brutalist" earned 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and his follow-up is shaping up as another prestige-maximalist play: a 200-page script, rare eight-perf 65mm cameras, and a cast pairing a two-time Oscar winner with a Cannes best actress winner. That gives distributors and festival programmers a high-profile package to position for the 2026–2027 awards corridor.
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