Foxcatcher has been in the works for a long time, and even when they had a cast including Steve Carell and Channing Tatum lined up they had to wait ages to shoot until the funding came together. Now it’s in the can and on its way to US cinemas later this year.
EW has debuted the first picture from the film which, as you can see, features Steve Carell sporting a prosthetic honker.
The drama is based on the true tale of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), who was murdered by his paranoid schizophrenic friend Jon Du Pont (Steve Carell) in 1996. Du Pont was an heir to the Du Pont chemical company, who teamed up with Dave’s brother Mark (Tatum) to build a wrestling training facility known as ‘Team Foxcatcher’ on his sprawling Pennsylvania estate. The Schultzes tried to get Du Pont help for years before the murder. Sienna Miller plays Nancy, Doug Schultz’s wife
Bennett Miller directs from a screenplay by Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye.