Tim Roth is in talks to play political operative Henry Kissinger in Cannes bundle Kissinger in Paris.
Jeff Stanzler is about to direct from his personal screenplay, billed as a satire with the announcement drawing comparisons to Wag the Canine. Robin Wright, Mary-Louise Parker, Lucy Hale, David Cross, Jimmy O. Yang, Rob Corddry and Dylan Penn additionally in talks to star within the ensemble.
As for the plot, it’s maybe finest to cite the official synopsis verbatim: “The movie tells the (principally) true story of Henry Kissinger – a middle-aged, politically washed-up Harvard professor who, in 1968, travels to Paris on the peak of its scholar protests and the daybreak of the sexual revolution. Feeling energized, he crashes the Paris Peace Talks and modifications the course of contemporary historical past. Just a few weeks later, Henry returns to America because the second strongest man on this planet – and much more astonishingly…because the least probably worldwide intercourse image of the fashionable period.”
Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady will produce for To Leslie outfit BCDF Photos, together with Stanzler. CAA Media Finance and Concourse Media are co-representing home rights, and Concourse is dealing with worldwide rights, with gross sales launching at Cannes.
“As a younger boy I marveled at Dr. Kissinger on TV, who seemed way more like me than Robert Redford, whereas he was courting a special world-famous actress or mannequin every month – he had no rival,” stated Stanzler. “I’m past thrilled to be working alongside Tim, Robin and so many different unbelievable actors to deliver this mad capped Paris of ’68 weekend to life.”