Actor to take rejigged role in thriller originally about a CIA operative-turned assassin, amid increase in use of gender-swapping to give women access to more interesting roles
Charlize Theron is to take a role originally intended for Brad Pitt in The Gray Man, a thriller about a CIA operative-turned-assassin who has to protect kids they never knew they had.
The role will be rejigged for Theron, according to Deadline. The original script, based on the first book in novelist Mark Greaney’s Gray Man series, was written by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of the Marvel superhero caper Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the forthcoming Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, Parts 1 and 2.
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Charlize Theron is to take a role originally intended for Brad Pitt in The Gray Man, a thriller about a CIA operative-turned-assassin who has to protect kids they never knew they had.
The role will be rejigged for Theron, according to Deadline. The original script, based on the first book in novelist Mark Greaney’s Gray Man series, was written by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of the Marvel superhero caper Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the forthcoming Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, Parts 1 and 2.
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- 10/13/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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