MOVIE NEWS – Christian Bale has joined the project as a producer but also as a protagonist in The Church of Living Dangerously.

Sometimes reality sounds like fiction. That’s the case with the true story that inspired the next film by acclaimed performer Christian Bale. After returning to superhero movies, the actor is already preparing a new drama that sounds as crazy as accurate. It is about the life of a pastor who turned out to be a drug dealer for Mexican organized crime.

According to Deadline, actor Christian Bale will star in The Church of Living Dangerously, a drama about the life of John Lee Bishop, a famous pastor. The latter was arrested for trafficking heroin for the Mexican cartels. This is just the tip of the iceberg of his vast life full of tragedies and eccentricities and luxuries. A pretty juicy role for him.

The libretto will be written by Charles Randolph, who wrote The Big Bet – 88%, another film with Bale in a lead role. The film will be based on an article by Vanity Fair, which details Bishop’s violent childhood, as he was forced to fight with other children to amuse his uncle and the heroin addiction of one of his children, which is why that he decided to start using it too and what later led him to dedicate himself to drug trafficking.

Bishop doesn’t have much of a real-life resemblance to Bale. The Brit is known for the transformations he undergoes for his roles. Be it the muscular superhero body of Batman Begins – 84%, the obese con man from American Scandal – 93% or the slimmer physique of The Machinist. So it will be necessary to see if he decides, once again, to surprise with a radical change of appearance for this role.

Bale just finished filming Thor: Love and Thunder a few months ago. Taika Waititi’s film will see the actor return in the superhero genre but now as the villain. It is known that his role will be that of Gorr, a dangerous alien capable of assassinating the most powerful creatures in the cosmos and who will have the titular character in his sights. This will be the most immediate project that we will see him in next summer.

Source: Collider