Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard and Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Walton Goggins will star in “Job,” a provocative adaptation of the biblical Book of Job.
In the movie, from writer-director Yuval Adler, Goggins (“The White Lotus,” “Fallout”) and Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose,” “The Morning Show”) will play a pair making an attempt to mount a daring, immersive staging of the Book of Job. The Bible story facilities on a person named Job, whose religion in God is examined by way of excessive struggling — he loses his wealth, youngsters and well being — however he in the end stays trustworthy.
Adler’s “Job” will transfer between timelines — “juxtaposing the ancient wager between God and Satan with the modern-day unraveling of a marriage under pressure,” an early synopsis of the movie explains. “As their private lives bleed into their performance, a standoff on set raises an unexpected question: who gets to play God?”
About Cotillard and Goggins boarding the undertaking, Adler acknowledged: “We want the film to feel both timeless and urgent — like the Book of Job itself. Together, Marion and Walton will elevate this story beyond anything I could have imagined on the page.”
Adler’s debut characteristic, the critically acclaimed 2013 movie “Bethlehem,” gained the highest prize on the Venice Days part of the Venice Film Festival and was Israel’s entry for the 2014 Academy Awards. Since then, the filmmaker helmed the 2019 thriller “The Operative,” starring Diane Kruger; the 2020 drama “The Secrets We Keep,” led by Noomi Rapace; and the 2023 action-thriller “Sympathy for the Devil” with Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman.
“Job” might be produced by Dan Kagan (“Longlegs”) and Ilya Stewart (“Petrov’s Flu”). Executive producers are Liz Siegal, Sean Patrick O’Reilly, Elena Silenok, Elvira Paterson, Vadim Degtyarev, Sergey Torchilin, Pavel Burian, Aleksandr Fomin and Stuart Manashil.
Cotillard is represented by CAA and Agence Adequat; Goggins is managed by Darris Hatch Management and CAA; and Adler is represented by Novo Entertainment. CAA Media Finance represents the movie’s distribution rights.
