We often comment on Movie Muser about how stars such as Leo DiCaprio are continually signing up for hundreds of movies, even though they know they’ll only actually make one or two of them – they just want to keep their options open. Bruce Willis also signs up for an almost farcical amount of movies, but the difference is that he actually goes on to star in most of them.
Now he’s the favourite for another part, with Deadline reporting that he and The Town’s Rebeca Hall are director Stephen Frears frontrunners for his upcoming movie, Lay The Favourite, based on the gambling memoir by Beth Raymer. The story follows a young woman who starts out as a cocktail waitress but ends up as part of the high stakes world of sports betting. She gets involved with two older men and a group of 20-something maths geeks, who think they can fix the Vegas sportsbook system and win big. Screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis has desribed the geeks as, A less violent, less sketchy version of the mob.
Willis and Hall aren’t locked in yet, with Willis also circling Wes Adnerson’s Moonrise Kingdom (although he could do both, he does make a lot of movies after all), and Hall rumoured for Shadow Dancer and possibly Baz Luhrmann’s take on The Great Gatsby.