The 'New Year's Eve' actress will play historian Deborah E. Lipstadt in the true-story drama, while the 'Avatar' actor will join Gerard Butler in the heist film.
- April 28, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Hilary Swank books a lead role in a Holocaust drama "Denial". Mick Jackson ("The Bodyguard") will serve behind the lens, and two-time Oscar nominee David Hare writes the screenplay based on Deborah E. Lipstadt's book "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier".
Swank will play Lipstadt who was sued for libel by fellow historian David Irving after she called him out as a Holocaust denier. He lost the case and the court found he did deliberately misrepresent historical evidence in order to depict Adolf Hitler in a favorable light. Tom Wilkinson is cast to play a barrister in the film.
In separate news, Sam Worthington is cast in heist movie "Den of Thieves". He joins Gerard Butler in feature film about a notorious band of bank robbers who targets the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles right under the nose of a rogue sheriff's deputy. Christian Gudegast will direct and write the screenplay.
