Billy Crudup in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III(2006).
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Crudup Leads Law in Mann's ENEMIES
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Thursday, April 03, 2008
Source: Variety
The cast continues to grow for Michael Mann's upcoming Public Enemies, reports Variety. Thespian Billy Crudup has joined the cast as F.B.I director J. Edgar Hoover while Stephen Lang is set to play Winstead, the leader of the Texas Rangers who joins the manhunt for John Dillinger (Depp) and his gang. The duo will be joining Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, David Wenham, Stephen Graham, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Adam Mucci. Michael Mann is directing, based on a screenplay from Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman. Universal Pictures is distributing.
Plot Concept: An adaptation of Brian Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43," the film centers on the government's attempt to stop John Dillinger and his gang. Depp is playing Dillinger to Bale's famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Wenham is playing Pete Pierpont, a member of Dillinger's crew who has a violent hostility to all authority. British actor Graham will portray Baby Face Nelson.
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