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Very far from the universe Star Wars in which he has been navigating badly for several weeks, Jude Law will embody Vladimir Putin in a French film signed Olivier Assayas : The Mage of the Kremlin. It will be an adaptation of the French writer's 2022 book Giuliano da Empoli.
He confirmed during a recent interview with Deadline that he had not yet started to prepare for this role and understood the scale of the task:
“I'm telling you about this with hesitation because I haven't really started working on it yet… Well, I've started, but right now it feels like an Everest to climb, so I'm in the foothills looking up thinking, “Oh my God, why did I agree to this?” That's often how I feel when I say yes to a project I'm like, “Oh my God, how are you doing? I do that? » But hey, it’s my problem, I will find the solution…”
In The Mage of the Kremlinthe French writer recounted an imagined meeting, one night in Moscow, with the enigmatic Vadim Baranov, formerly an artist, producer of reality TV shows and eminence grise of a young Vladimir Putin, nicknamed the Tsar. Retired from business at the time of the story, Vadim Baranov recounts his youth, his life in the 1990s in Russia, his contribution to the political rise of the “Tsar” from 1999 and his experience of power, the central theme of the work. .
The novel plunges us into the heart of the Russian state, where sycophants and oligarchs wage open war, and where Vadim, who has become the regime's main communications advisor, transforms an entire country into an avant-garde political scene. However, Vadim is not as ambitious as the others. Entangled in the increasingly dark secrets of the regime he helped create, he will do anything to get out, guided by the memory of his grandfather, an eccentric aristocrat who survived the Revolution, and the fascinating and ruthless Ksenia with whom he fell in love.
Olivier Assayasdirector of Sils Maria Or Irma Vepco-wrote the screenplay with Emmanuel Carrère.
The cast will also include Alicia VikanderJeffrey Wright, Paul Dano, Zach Galifianakis, and Tom Sturridge.
No release date yet.