Cate Blanchett & Selena Gomez Join Brady Corbet’s New Movie

(Left) Oscar®-nominee, Cate Blanchett, arrives at The 88th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 28, 2016. Credit/Provider: Phil McCarten / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: Scott Diussa. (Right) Selena Gomez arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit/Provider: Etienne Laurent / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

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Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez have boarded Brady Corbet’s new film.
It’ll span decades but is mostly set in the 1970s.
Michael Fassbender is also in the cast.

Despite a long, three-hour-plus running time (including an intermission!), writer/director Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ certainly won plaudits, including three Oscars in 2025. And the filmmaker is definitely able to attract big names to star in his complex, emotional epics.

Cate Blanchett let slip at the Cannes Film Festival that she’s about to work on the director’s next project, joining Selena Gomez, whose casting was revealed by The InSneider.

The pair will star along Michael Fassbender, who has been attached for a while.

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What’s the story of Brady Corbet’s new film?

Brady Corbet accepts the award for Director Motion Picture at the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Corbet is keeping much of the information about his latest close to his chest as always –– but he has said this about it:

“The film spans from the 19th century into the present day — it’s just predominantly focused on the ’70s. The film is really, really genre-defying.”

It’s also reportedly being shot using very rare 65mm cameras, and will be another long sit –– the script, per the director, ran to around 200 pages (for comparison, ‘The Brutalist’s screenplay was 175 pages…)

Where else can we see Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez?

Cate Blanchett arrives at the Academy’s 13th Governors Awards on Saturday, November 19, 2022, in Los Angeles. Credit/Provider: Blaine Ohigashi / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

Blanchett has a few movies on the way, including ‘Alpha Gang’, ‘Sweetsick’ and the second film in the live-action ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ franchise, where she is reprising the role of Valka, which she voiced in the animation version.

Gomez is attached to play fellow musician Linda Ronstadt in a biopic of the singer, and will be back on our screens this year for the sixth season of comedy murder mystery series ‘Only Murders in the Building’.

Selena Gomez at the Academy Women’s Luncheon Presented by Chanel hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. Credit/Provider: Al Seib / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.