Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne is attached to star in the currently untitled Cambridge Analytica movie in the works at AGBO Films.
Oscar-winner Peter Farrelly is reportedly in talks to direct the film which sees “Avengers: Endgame” directors Joe and Anthony Russo producing and that film’s writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely penning this one’s script.
Redmayne will play Christopher Wylie, a data consultant who hatched the idea of Cambridge Analytica – a data analytics firm that illegally harvested the personal data of 87 million Facebook users in order to influence both the Brexit vote and the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
Wylie’s guilty conscience led him to become a whistleblower and tell his story, both in court and in the press, with an article in The Guardian serving as the catalyst for this film. Mike Larocca will also produce the movie with several distributors reportedly expressing interest in the project.
Farrelly would take over from Matt Shakman and David Gordon Green who were both initially linked at some point to take the helm of the film which hasn’t set a production schedule as yet.
Source: Collider
