INCEPTION star Ellen Page is in final talks to join Zal Batmanglij’s thriller THE EAST.
The story features a private contracting firm who protect big corporations from radical environmentalists and anti-business extremists. How they stop them isn’t clear, but I’m guessing this is a ‘any means necessary’ kind of deal. The agents, led by actress and co-writer Brit Marling (ANOTHER EARTH), are tasked with infiltrating a mysterious anarchist organisation known as The East.
Marling’s character finds herself falling for the leader of The East, played by Alexander Skarsgard (who seems to be in everything right now). Page will portray Izzy, a scorned lover of Skarsgard and potential adversary for Marling. From what we’ve seen in HARD CANDY and SUPER, Ellen Page does good crazy so this could be one to watch.
Page will next be seen in cinemas alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, and Alec Baldwin in Woody Allen’s THE BOP DECAMERON.
Source: Variety
