Cosmopolis Production Update

Production update on COSMOPOLIS: Feature Film
TORONTO ANTENNA LTD.
STATUS: May 24
LOCATION: Toronto – New York PRODUCER: Paulo Branco – Martin Katz – Renee Tab WRITER/DIRECTOR: David Cronenberg
PM: Joseph Boccia – Robin Reelis CAST: Robert Pattinson – Paul Giamatti – Juliette Binoche – Mathieu Amalric ALFAMA FILMS
KINOLOGY It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era
is about to end. The booming times of
market optimism — when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more
vital and influential than governments — are poised to crash. Eric Packer (Pattinson), a
billionaire asset manager at age twenty-
eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex
and settles into his lavishly customized
white stretch limousine. Today he is a man
with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut
across town. Stalled in traffic by a
presidential motorcade, a music idol’ s funeral, and a violent political demonstration,
Eric receives a string of visitors — experts on security, technology, currency, finance, and a
few sexual partners — as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.
Based on the novel by Don DeLillo. (Giamatti
plays the dual role of Benno Levin/Richard
Steers. / Production office opens Mid-March.)