*UPDATE* Berenice Bejo on "The Childhood of a Leader"... with Robert Pattinson...

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An they will be shooting in November...

from @Variety

from Variety

The film directed by Brady Corbet will shoot in November 

Berenice Bejo will play the matriarch in the upcoming drama “The Childhood of the Leader,” Variety has learned. 

Juliette Binoche was originally cast in the part, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. The film, which focuses on the early years of a post-World War I ruler, is the directorial debut of actor Brady Corbet (“Simon Killer”) and co-stars Robert Pattinson and Tim Roth. 

Bejo was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for her breakout role in 2011’s “The Artist,” won the Cannes actress award for 2013’s “The Past” and reteamed with her husband-director, Michel Hazanavicius, in the 2014 war picture “The Search.” 

Corbet co-wrote the script with Mona Fastvold. “The Childhood of a Leader” will begin shooting in November in Budapest.

*UPDATE* about "The Childhood of a Leader" and "The Lost City of Z"... with Robert Pattinson...

Rob's future movie projects....

from Deadline
Brady Corbet is the director of "The Childhood of a Leader"

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Binoche also stars in Corbet’s "The Childhood Of A Leader" in late fall with Robert Pattinson and Tim Roth. For Sils Maria, his interaction with the actress created “this kind of meta thing that Olivier appreciates,” he says of his friend.
The WME-repeed Corbet tells me Childhood Of A Leader is about a little boy who relocates to France with his family in 1919. His father is a political advisor to Woodrow Wilson about seven months in the run up to the Treaty of Versailles. He calls it, “My version of a horror film. Instead of being possessed by a demon, the little boy is possessed by notions of the era.”

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from Craveonline
James Gray is the director of  "The Lost City of Z"

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The Lost City of Z (a period adventure film, concerning British surveyors looking for a city in the jungles of Brazil; Z was set up to be made with Brad Pitt back in 2004) appears to be ready to film (with Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Pattinson). Do you have a start date?
We’ll begin filming in January. I’m going to start prepping in September. It’s a very elaborate film and requires extensive prep. We’re going to shoot in two different countries. It’s going to be a very challenging, but hopefully rewarding shoot. 

You’ve been close to making Z a few times, what type of film can we expect? Has it changed in scope over the past decade?I want to ask the same question with each film, which is: what does it mean to be a human being? The Lost City of Z is almost set on two different planets – the jungle and Victorian England. What does it mean to be a civilized person? This to me is a profound question. What is progress? Is progress just economic growth? Or is it understanding what’s around us? Is it growth of emotional intelligence or GDP growth? How do we contemplate new and old ideas of humanity? That to me is what Z is about. 

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"The Childhood of a Leader" and "The Lost City if Z"... Full Synopsis... and being listed for the "Cannes Film Market"...

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According to Cinando, both films "The Childhood of a Leader" and "The Lost City if Z" are listed to be included at the Cannes Film Market...

from Cinando

Synopsis...

This chilling fable about the rise of fascism in the 20th Century tells the story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
Loosely inspired by the early childhood experiences of many of the great dictators of the 20th century and infused with the same sense of dread as The Others and The Omen, (The) Childhood Of a Leader is an ominous portrait of emerging evil.

from Cinando

Synopsis...

In 1925, Fawcett venturer into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Eldorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humans. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions inspired Conan Doyle's The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions round the globe, Fawcett embarked with his son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization - which he dubbed Z - existed. Then the expedition vanished. 

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*UPDATE* "The Childhood of a leader" with Robert Pattinson... could be starting shooting in June...

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from English.crew-united.com

According to them, they could start filming 17th June till 17th August 2014, in Belgium and Great Britain. 

Rob's character name is Charles.

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from Michael Epp.com

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*UPDATE* Robert Pattinson's IMDb...

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from IMDb

he he....

• The Rover and Maps to the Stars are completed....
• Hold on to me, The Childhood of a leader are now in pre-production...
• and of course, Life and Queen of the Desert are in post-prod...

*UPDATE* IMDb "The Childhood of a Leader"... with Robert Pattinson...

Mars 2014...

from IMDb

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*VIDEO* Brady Corbet about Robert Pattinson and "The childhood of a Leader"...

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Sundance is a place for discovery, where new talent can shine in front of an audience hungry for revelation. With their new film “The Sleepwalker,” co-screenwriters Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet (she directs, he stars) have auspiciously debuted their creative partnership, which is already three screenplays deep. (He will direct their next feature, “The Childhood of a Leader,” starring Robert Pattinson, Tim Roth and Juliette Binoche, later this year, and a third project will follow.)

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Director Brady Corbet about "The Childhood of a Leader"...

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from The Aesthete

Corbet is about to embark on his most daunting and risky gamble to date. As soon as he wraps Paradise Lost, he heads back to Paris to begin prep on his debut feature as a writer-director. And it’s a doozy: a WWI-era period drama called The Childhood of a Leader that he plans to film in both English and French with no genre hook or titillating graphic content. “It’s about an American family that has to go to France for the Paris peace conference,” Corbet says. “But it’s really a dark fable about this little boy coming of age during a very politically charged period in world history.” Corbet is well aware that to many it might seem like something of a tough sell. “I’m trying to find new and evocative ways to talk about it and make it sound not so dry because it is very formal, but it’s almost a thriller. It flirts with being a thriller for sure. Yeah, it’s a strange film. I guess I’ve always been passionate about anything that feels difficult.”

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*NEW PROJECT* Robert Pattinson to star in "The Childhood of a Leader"...

with Juliette Binoche...  

from Variety

Juliette Binoche, Tim Roth and Robert Pattinson are attached to “The Childhood of a Leader,” a new drama directed by Brady Corbet, Variety has learned. The pic is Corbet’s feature directorial debut, after winning honorable mention at Sundance in 2009 for his short “Protect You + Me.” 

The drama, which focuses on the childhood of a post-World War I. leader, is tentatively scheduled to shoot in Europe starting in May. Corbet co-wrote the script with Mona Fastvold (director of “The Sleepwalker,” which will be competing at 2014′s Sundance Film Festival). It will be produced by Antoine and Martine de Clermont-Tonnere, Chris Coen and Amour Fou. Corbet, star of the indie “Simon Killer,” just wrapped roles in Noah Baumbach’s “While We’re Young,” Andrea Di Stefano’s “Paradise Lost” and Bertrand Bonello’s “Saint Laurent.”

from The FilmStage 

Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche Reteam For Brady Corbet’s Directorial Debut  

With roles in Simon Killer, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Melancholia, Funny Games, and more, Brady Corbet has been a fascinating actor to watch in recent years, but now the up-and-coming talent is headed down a different direction. While he directed the 2008 short Protect You + Me, he’s now set to helm his feature-length debut with a new project titled The Childhood of a Leader. According to Variety, he’s already assembled quite a cast as well, with the Cosmopolis duo of Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson on board, along with Tim Roth. The film, co-written by Corbet and Mona Fastvold, will track the childhood of a post-World War I leader. Unfortunately there’s no additional details outside of a Europe production scheduled for this May, but hopefully we’ll see this one on the 2015 festival circuit.

from Gossip Cop 

Robert Pattinson is reportedly attached to The Childhood of a Leader, an upcoming drama with Juliette Binocheand Tim Roth.
The movie, which marks the directorial debut of actor Brady Corbet, tells the story of a post-World War I leader’s youth.
The casting news was first reported byVariety.
According to the outlet, production is tentatively set to begin in Europe in May.
Gossip Cop has reached out for confirmation and additional details.

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Rob’s new project “The Childhood of a Leader” is from a collection of short stories by Jean-Paul Sartre...

via Amazon.com: Le Mur (The Wall) by Jean Paul Sartre

The Wall (French: Le Mur) by Jean-Paul Sartre, a collection of short stories published in 1939 containing the eponymous story “The Wall,” is considered one of the author’s greatest existentialist works of fiction. Sartre dedicated the book to his lifelong companion Olga Kosakiewicz, a former student of Simone de Beauvoir. The 4 stories are, “The Wall, The Chamber, Erostrate and lastly “The Childhood of a Leader.”

A tale of the mental progress of a boy named Lucien Fleurier from around age 4 to his early adulthood. Lucien, the son of a rich industrialist, searches for identity and meaning in order to find out “what’s wrong” with him. He journeys from Freudian psychoanalysis and being a one-time sexual partner of a paederast poet, to finally becoming part of a Fascist youth organization and killing a Jewish man who is reading l’Humanité, with his friends.

via Fnac.com: Le Mur, par J.P Sartre

Comment le conformisme bourgeois a-t-il conduit Lucien, personnage falot et artificiel, à devenir un antisémite convaincu ? Jean-Paul Sartre démontre implacablement la logique de ce cheminement dans une parodie du roman d'apprentissage, L'Enfance d'un chef, la plus longue des nouvelles de ce recueil. Dans les quatre autres, le lecteur croisera un condamné à mort pendant la guerre d'Espagne, une femme confrontée à la maladie mentale de son mari, un crime gratuit concrétisant une existence insipide et les fantasmes d'une femme mariée à un impuissant.

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From "Twilight" hunk couldn't walk into a corner store without a legion of girls screaming and passing out, to an actor making all the right moves, Robert Pattinson continues to leave his vampire past far behind him. With a re-teaming with David Cronenberg and films with James Gray and Werner Herzog on the horizon, Pattinson continues to be cashing in his Respectable Actor chips and is now set to work again with a famed French actress. 

Pattinson is re-teaming with "Cosmopolis"co-star Juliette Binoche for "The Childhood Of A Leader." Tim Roth rounds out the leading trio the cast in the film co-written by Mona Fastvold and actor Brady Corbert ("Melancholia," "Simon Killer") that will tell the story —as you might have guessed from the title — of the childhood of a post-WWI leader. Which one? Don't ask because for the moment, Variety isn't saying. That being said, we should know more soon. 

Everything is coming together for shooting to start in May overseas, with Corbet making his feature directorial debut. So add this to Pattinson's growing list of intriguing projects that he has coming down the line.

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