Pan Costars Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara to Reunite in New Film Collateral Beauty

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who helmed Sundance Film Festival grand prize winner ”Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”, will direct.

Hugh Jackman is set to star in the new film Collateral Beauty.
Hugh Jackman is set to star in the new film Collateral Beauty.
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Broadway darling Hugh Jackman has more big plans for the big screen, according to Variety. The Tony winner is set to star alongside Rooney Mara in the Collateral Beauty. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who helmed this year’s Sundance Film Festival grand prize winner Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, is set to direct.

Collateral Beauty focuses on a man, who works in a New York ad agency, as a terrible tragedy sends him down a path of deep depression. No distributor or financier is so far attached to the film.

The film will reunite Jackman and Mara who worked together on the upcoming film Pan, a new movie that remakes the Peter Pan origin story, which will hit theaters in October. In addition to an illustrious film career including Les Misérables and the X-men movies, Jackman is a Tony winner who was most recently seen on Broadway in The River. Rooney is known for playing Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

In addition to Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Gomez-Rejon has directed several episodes of Glee and American Horror Story.