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Lord of the Rings and X-Men icons set to join graphic new epic from The Brutalist director
The upcoming film is expected to be even longer than The Brutalist.
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- Phoebe Kowhai Barnes
Published: Monday, 18 May 2026 at 3:16 pm
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Huge Hollywood names including the stars of Lord of the Rings and X-Men are taking on a new graphic epic film from The Brutalist director.
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Brady Corbet, who helmed the epic period drama starring Adrien Brody, will be joined by the likes of Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender and Selena Gomez for the cast of his latest project.
Blanchett revealed her involvement in the upcoming film at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, letting slip during a masterclass that she is "about to work with Brady Corbet on a film".
The untitled project had already been confirmed by the Oscar-nominated director himself at the Storyhouse Screenwriting Festival in Dublin last month, where he revealed it had a mammoth 200-page script.
Michael Fassbender. Thibaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images
For context, 2024's The Brutalist had a run time of three and a half hours and the script was 165 pages long, so one can only imagine how lengthy this new film will be – but epic is certainly the right word.
Radio Times has reached out for comment.
Gomez's involvement in the film had already previously been reported, but now Blanchett and Fassbender have joined what appears to be an ever-growing, star-studded cast.
The new "genre-defying" film will be set in the '70s, Corbet revealed, and will be shot using very rare eight-perf 65mm cameras.
He said: "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."
Adrien Brody as László Tóth in The Brutalist. A24
Currently nothing else is known about the plot other than it will be an "X-rated" feature produced by Andrew Morrison for his Kaplan Morrison production banner.
The upcoming epic will be Corbet’s fourth feature film, having directed 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader and 2018’s Vox Lux before working on The Brutalist.
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Cate Blanchett has a career spanning 36 years under her belt, during which she has worked with big directorial names, including Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, David Fincher and Wes Anderson. Aside from Lord of the Rings, she is recognised from Carol, Ocean's 8, Tár and most recently Father Mother Sister Brother.
Michael Fassbender is best known for playing mutant supervillain Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) in the rebooted X-Men film series, while Selena Gomez began her career on Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place.
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Phoebe Kowhai BarnesFreelance Writer
Phoebe Kowhai Barnes is a Freelance Writer who covers pop culture and entertainment programmes for the Radio Times. She previously worked as the Senior Assistant Editor at The Tab where she managed its local department. She obtained a BA (Hons) in English Literature from University of Nottingham.
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