The Veterans Boards Bernard Rose’s ‘Lear Rex’ With Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain Rachel Brosnahan, Ariana DeBose & Peter Dinklage – AFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Veterans has boarded sales for an AFM launch on Bernard Rose’s Shakespeare adaptation Lear Rex, starring Al Pacino as tragic monarch King Lear alongside Jessica Chastain as his villainous, power-hungry, oldest daughter Goneril.
Principal photography is completed on the picture, the all-star cast for which also features Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel) as Lear’s second malevolent daughter Regan; Academy-Award Winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) as the king’s beloved youngest daughter Cordelia, who he erroneously banishes; Emmy Winner Peter Dinklage (Game Of Thrones, Cyrano) as the Fool, and Lakeith Stanfield (The Book Of Clarence) as the scheming figure of Edmund.
Further cast members include Ted Levine as Kent, Mathew Jacobs as Gloucester, Danny Huston as Albany, Chris Messina as Cornwall, Stephen Dorff as Poor Tom and Rhys Coiro as Oswald.
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