Hey, if there can be a movie about Donald Trump in 2024, it stands to reason there be a movie about the guy who holds his leash, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Deadline confirms the news that Jude Law will play Putin in Olivier Assayas’ upcoming film, The Wizard of the Kremlin.
The film was first announced last year with Assayas directing a cast led by Law, Paul Dano, and Alicia Vikander. Details remain a bit thin, but we do know it’ll follow Russia in the 1990s after the fall of the USSR, when a young producer finds himself as the new spinmeister for a rising star politician, Vladimir Putin.
Law doesn’t say much, but he has begun doing some research into playing the infamous Russian leader…
“I say that hesitatingly because I haven’t really started work on it yet,” said Law. “I mean, I have, but at the moment it looks like an Everest to climb, so I’m in the foothills looking up thinking, ’Oh Christ, what have I said?’ That’s often how I feel whilst I say yes. I was going, ’Oh God, how am I going to do this?’ But anyway, that’s for me to sort out.”
Assayas is the director known for Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper, and Wasp Network.
It’s been a busy few months for Law who can be seen right now in Disney’s Star Wars: Skelton Crew series, and also in Justin Kurzel’s crime film The Order.
