Richard Gere is readying his upcoming slate by signing on for a pair of films including the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia and the cop drama Brooklyn's Finest.
Amelia stars Hilary Swank as the female aviator in the formative stages of her career. George Putnam, a publisher and publicist, was engaged by society denizen Amy Guest to set up a daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Guest was talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, she dispatched Putnam to find a female pilot, and to turn the flight into a media event.
Mira Nair is directing and filming begins later this month in Toronto, Nova Scotia and South Africa.
Brooklyn's Finest will be directed by Antoine Fuqua and revolves around three unconnected Brooklyn cops who wind up at the same deadly location, despite vastly different career paths. One has gone undercover to crack drug gangs; another has engaged in graft and corruption; while another has played by the rules and put in his time on the force up until his retirement. The film has been described as Crash meets Training Day.
The film also stars Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke.
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