We're big fans around here of
Steve McQueen's first feature film
Hunger, and the news that he is just weeks away from filming on his sophomore effort
Shame, has us mega excited. We've known for a while that
Michael Fassbender will lead the contemporary drama about a hopeless office worker an sex addict in New York as his post-Magneto role, and now comes word from
Irish News Sources that
Carey Mulligan and
James Badge Dale are joining him. All three thesps are hot property right now. Fassbender for his eye-catching turn as the film critic turned Nazi spy Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's
Inglourious Basterds - Mulligan for her Oscar nominated (and should have won) turn in
An Education and her high-profile role in
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - and Badge Dale for his high exposure on t.v. this year from HBO's
The Pacific and AMC's headscratcher
Rubicon. All three have been around a while but in the past two years have really turned in their best work and are being rewarded with the frequency and the quality of the parts thrown their way.
McQueen has wrote this Indie drama with
Abi Morgan (Sex Traffic) and
The Playlist speculates Mulligan will play Fassbender's troubled sister, a blues singer who comes to stay for a few days and that Badge Dale is playing Fassbender's boss. The official synopsis from the American Film Market read;
"Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us".
Could it be a new Fight Club? Filming begins in January, with Momentum expected to release the film before the end of next year. Presumably, this is the film that will keep Michael Fassbender from joining
The Hobbit.