Tobey Maguire's First Movie Role After No Way Home Confirmed
Tobey Maguire's role in director Damien Chazelle's new film Babylon has finally been revealed. Chazelle wowed audiences with his directorial debut drama Whiplash about an abusive teacher and a devoted student. He followed that up with 2016's musical love-letter to Hollywood with La La Land. The Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling-led romance was a box office hit and garnered an Oscar win for Chazelle for Best Director, the youngest person to ever win the award. His next film First Man, about Neil Armstrong's journey to the moon, was beloved by critics but failed to resonate with audiences.
Chazelle looks to bounce back to the top of the box office and onto the Academy ballot with his new film Babylon, a period drama set during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the late 1920s, when sound first made its debut in motion pictures. Babylon has cast of many of the film industry's top stars. Brad Pitt has been cast as John Gilbert, one of the biggest stars of the silent film era who failed to transition into talkies when sound became the dominant draw at the theater. Margot Robbie stars as Clara Bow, the iconic sex symbol of the «roaring twenties» that starred in such classic films as Mantrap (1926) and Wings (1927).The Social Network's Max Minghella, son of famed director Anthony Minghella, will star as Irving G. Thalberg, a major film producer of the era that helped create MGM studios. Spike Jonze, Samara Weaving, and Olivia Wilde round out Babylon's expansive cast.
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Per Variety, Maguire's role in Chazelle's upcoming Hollywood historical drama Babylon has finally been revealed. Originally announced to have joined the film in June 2021, his role remained under wraps until recently.
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