The cast for Michael Mann’s latest, Public Enemies, has already been filling out very nicely, with the likes of Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Channing Tatum, Marion Cotillard, Giovanni Ribisi and Stephen Dorff on board the period cops’n’robbers thriller, which details the efforts of Bale’s FBI guy, Melvin Purvis, to catch the notorious gangster, John Dillinger (Depp).
And it just added two more quality actors today, with David Wenham – Faramir in Lord Of The Rings, in case you somehow weren’t aware – joining the cast as Pete Pierpont, a member of Dillinger’s crew who has a violent and hostile reaction to all forms of authority.
And we’re particularly pleased to see that the British actor Stephen Graham – so good in Shane Meadows’ This Is England – is getting a shot at a bigger movie, too. He’ll play Baby Face Nelson, the infamous bank robber who showed up briefly in the Coen Bros.' O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Shooting begins on location in Chicago in just a few weeks’ time, with the film set for release sometime next year. Cannot. Wait.