Sunday, September 28, 2014






2:21 PM PDT 9/28/2014 by Scott Feinberg

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Much of the interest in '71 centers around Demange's casting of Jack O'Connell, who will also play the lead role in Angelina Jolie's highly-anticipated Oscar hopeful Unbroken. In the former, the 24-year-old plays the main role of Gary Hook, a young British soldier who becomes separated from his unit during a riot on the streets of Belfast and goes through hell trying to get home. In the latter, he'll be playing World War II POW Louis Zamperini in another tale of men in battle.
O'Connell also appears in David Mackenzie's Starred Up, which was shot simultaneously with '71 but premiered at last year's Telluride Film Festival and was released last month, to rave reviews. If his quiet but sturdy performance in that film and in '71 are any indication, then Jolie may have struck oil. Certainly Demange did, and he knows it: "He's the bollocks, as they say," the director said of his star during a post-screening Q&A.
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