Two acclaimed actors are set to co-star together in a Steven Soderbergh spy thriller film.
Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are now attached to lead the cast in Black Bag, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Blanchett, 54, last appeared on screen in the Australian drama film The New Boy (2023), and has three new project either being shot or in some phase of post-production.
As for Fassbender, 46, he last starred in Taika Waititi’s sports comedy-drama film Next Goal Wins (2023).
The details of their new pairing in Black Bag have been kept under wraps for the most part, however, the outlet noted that Black Bag will be set in the UK.
Cate Blanchett, 54, and Michael Fassbender, 46, are attached to star in the upcoming thriller film Black Bag that’s set to be directed by Steven Soderbergh
The team behind Black Bag are in the process of looking for financing and a distribution company.
The production is slated to start shooting in London, England, but as of now no deal has been reached just yet.
Soderbergh will be directing the feature project that was written by David Keopp, who is considered by many in the industry as one of the more established screenwriters in Hollywood.
The director and writer have a history of working together, including the tech-thriller KIMI starring Zoe Kravitz and the thriller Presence that is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.
Both Blanchett and Fassbender have histories of working with Soderbergh in the past.
The actress, who’s a Melbourne, Victoria, Australia native, starred in his noir The Good German (2008) as well as Ocean’s 8, which he produced and was part of his Ocean’s 11 franchise.
Meanwhile, the Heidelberg, West Germany native appeared in Soderbergh’s action film Haywire (2011) that centered on MMA fighter Gina Carano.
Blanchett last starred in in the Australian drama film The New Boy (2023)
Fassbender most recently starred in Taika Waititi’s sports comedy-drama film Next Goal Wins (2023)
Soderbergh, 61, who is set to direct Black Bag, has worked with both Blanchett and Fassbender in the past; the filmmaker is seen at 2023 Sundance Film Festival
Blanchett is also set to star in the science fiction action comedy film Borderlands, alongside Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, Bobby Lee, Édgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Gina Gershon.
The Oscar winner also voices a role of a tiger in the upcoming film Euphoria.
She also has been recently shooting the dark comedy film Rumours, which also includes a cast of Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance, Roy Dupuis, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira and Zlatko Burić.
Fassbender has two new films of his own that are now in post-production, including the Irish-language film Kneecap that features Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, DJ Próvaí, Simone Kirby and Josie Walker.
He also shot the martial arts comedy film Kung Fury 2, David Sandberg’s sequel to Kung Fury (2015), that also stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ralf Moeller, Alexandra Shipp and Jorma Taccone.
