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Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell are set to star in Lunatic at Large, according to Production Weekly. This new movie is based on a treatment written by the late Stanley Kubrick and pulp fiction writer Jim Thompson.
Lunatic is set in 1956 New York and centers on an ex-carnival worker with anger control issues and a nervous barfly whom he picks up. Details about the creative team and further casting will be announced at a later date.
Johansson made her Broadway debut this season in A View From the Bridge. Among her many movies credits are Match Point, Iron Man, The Nanny Diaries, The Other Boleyn Girl, and Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Rockwell, who has worked frequently on stage, is currently appearing in the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane. Among his many other film credits are Everybody’s Fine, Moon, Lawn Dogs, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
