One of the great things about being Team Hardy is that the people Tom works with are also great. The cast of Child 44 makes me want to run singing through the streets. And now Paddy Considine and Fares Fares are joining. This whole production is simply stellar. (0n a selfish note, dear film gods, let there be set pics.)
*Photo is obviously from Animal Rescue but there are no Child 44 images, so making do…
Paddy Considine and Fares Fares Join Tom Hardy Thriller ‘Child 44’
Paddy Considine and Fares Fares (“Zero Dark Thirty”) are in negotiations to join the international ensemble of Summit Entertainment’s Soviet-era thriller “Child 44,” The Wrap has learned.
The duo will be joining Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman in the movie, which Daniel Espinosa (“Safe House”) is directing from a script by Richard Price, who adapted the bestselling novel by Tom Rob Smith.
“The Killing” star Joel Kinnaman was previously reported to be in negotiations as well.
Set during the 1950s, “Child 44” follows a member of the Soviet police (Hardy) who finds himself the target of his own government’s suspicions as he investigates a brutal serial killer targeting children.
Fares will play one of Hardy’s trusted allies, while Considine’s role is being kept under wraps.
Summit, which is owned by Lionsgate, partnered with Worldview Entertainment to co-finance and executive produce the movie earlier this year.
Ridley Scott and Michael Schaefer will produce for Scott Free Productions along with Greg Shapiro. Lionsgate execs Erik Feig and Jim Miller will oversee the project for the studio.
While “Child 44” is set in Russia, its cast will be primarily British (Hardy, Oldman, Considine) and Swedish (Rapace, Kinnaman, Fares). (x)
This is great news indeed! And wow, so many Swedes on this production, it’s basically a Swedish film with some extra help from abroad, at this point. Here’s hoping for a premiere here in Stockholm!
![With a cast like that, if [Lawless] turned out bad, we really would have screwed up somehow. Hardy is one of the most naturally gifted actors. It was incredible how he could turn it on and off. Literally, he’d be playing Scrabble and then get up and deliver a really motive speech and you’re like ‘holy shit, how did you do that after using all seven of your letters’.
- Dane Dehaan, co-star in Lawless, giving Tom praise for both his acting abilities and (I think) his Scrabble-playing talents… From GQ, Sept 2012.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a3dde0ca7fa8f4c45db83fa5f346a9c2/tumblr_mmxie032uJ1qe5f96o1_r1_500.jpg)
