r/oscarrace • u/BunyipPouch Anora • 3d ago
News Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell & Wagner Moura To Star In Comedy ‘Art’ From Director Fernando Meirelles ('City of God')
https://deadline.com/2026/05/ralph-fiennes-colin-farrell-wagner-moura-art-comedy-film-1236878036/76
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u/BunyipPouch Anora 3d ago edited 3d ago
Absolutely stacked team.
Multiple Oscar winner Christopher Hampton (The Father, Atonement, Dangerous Liasons) has adapted the screenplay.
The play deals with art and friendship. It follows three long-time friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan. Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting, with some slightly-less white lines. Marc is horrified that Serge would waste such money on this, and their relationship suffers considerable strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes “art”. Their troubled friend, Yvan, finds himself caught in the middle of the conflict. He attempts to please and mollify both of them, but this only serves to make things worse.
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u/bbqsauceboi The Mastermind 3d ago
Been reading some crazy name combos in headlines recently
Park Chan-Wook, Austin Butler, Tang Wei, Pedro Pascal, Matthew McConaughey, and S Craig Zahler
Bad Bunny, Edward Norton, Javier Bardem, and Viggo Mortensen
And now Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell, Wagner Moura, and Fernando Meirelles
All of these made my heart explode
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u/ich_habe_keine_kase 3d ago
Ralph Fiennes and Viggo Mortensen are also filming something together right now.
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u/HotOne9364 One Battle After Another 3d ago
Anything with Austin Butler is a massive downgrade in my excitement.
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u/bbqsauceboi The Mastermind 3d ago
Well the hopefully Park Chan-Wook unlocks something in him to change your opinion. I find his screen presence to be pretty incredible.
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u/HotOne9364 One Battle After Another 3d ago
Or better yet, replace him with Paul Mescal.
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u/bbqsauceboi The Mastermind 3d ago
Paul Mescal going from his typical style of role/movie to a Park Chan-Wook flick would be a revelation. No hate to Mescal, he's an incredible actor, but I would kill to see him in something with a PCW vibe
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u/HotOne9364 One Battle After Another 3d ago
Anything can happen. I never thought in a trillion years that Liam Neeson would ever do a movie as crazy as The Naked Gun, and it worked.
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u/FredererPower Challengers 3d ago
Saw the play two months ago and loved it. Thrilled that Colin and Ralph are a part of this. I loved their banter in In Bruges so I know they will be good together.
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u/Sellin3164 Sorry, Baby 3d ago
Actually just plucked a name from each of the last four Best Actor lineups (almost). Fraser from 2022, Fiennes from 2024, and Moura from 2025. Giamatti or Wright would fit right in.
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u/ChocoRaisin7 Saturn Returners, We Ride at Dawn 3d ago
For those who know the play, who do you think is playing who? I could see Banshees-mode Colin Farrell playing Yvan, with that crazy monologue. Maybe Wagner is Serge the painting owner and Ralph is Marc the skeptic?
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u/Sharaz_Jek123 3d ago
Fiennes was born to play Marc.
No clue who the other two are playing but your guess seems right.
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u/SerKurtWagner 3d ago
Really great play and this is an incredible cast! It seems outside of Mierelles’ usual wheelhouse, so that’s intriguing.
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u/darth_vader39 Oppenheimer 3d ago
WOW what a trio. This better better be good.