{"id":768847,"date":"2026-05-02T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768847\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:40:34","slug":"ralph-fiennes-colin-farrell-and-wagner-moura-to-star-in-art-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768847\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Wagner Moura to Star in Art Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOscar nominees <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ralph-fiennes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ralph-fiennes\" data-tag=\"ralph-fiennes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Fiennes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/colin-farrell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_colin-farrell\" data-tag=\"colin-farrell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Farrell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/wagner-moura\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wagner-moura\" data-tag=\"wagner-moura\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wagner Moura<\/a> are set to play three friends in upcoming comedy \u201cArt,\u201d based on French playwright Yasmina Reza\u2019s Tony-winning pay satirising modern art, friendship and intellectual pretension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film \u2014\u00a0launching in the Cannes market with Patrick Wachsberger\u2019s Legendary-backed 193 \u2014\u00a0is being directed by Fernando Meirelles, the Oscar-nominated Brazilian director best known for \u201cCity of God,\u201d \u201cThe Constant Gardener\u201d and \u201cThe Two Popes,\u201d from a script by two-time Oscar winner Christopher Hampton (\u201cDangerous Liasons,\u201d \u201cThe Father\u201d). CAA are repping U.S. rights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cArt\u201d follows three friends, Marc, Serge and Yvan, and one ridiculously expensive, plain white painting. It\u2019s procurement by one friend and differing opinions about what constitutes \u2018art\u2019 sparks a conflict among the group that uncovers long-held grievances and tension points in their relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film is being produced by Charles Finch (\u201cPriscilla\u201d) and Tracy Seaward (\u201cThe Queen\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHampton returns to \u201cArt\u201d 30 years after he translated the original 1994 play for its English-language adaptation, which was directed by Matthew Warchus and opened in the West End in 1996 (starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtney and Ken Stott). \u201cArt\u201d has seen numerous revivals since, including on Broadway in 2025 starring Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t193 recently boarded another starry project, the Western thriller \u201cThe Brigands of Rattlecreek\u201d being directed by South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook (\u201cNo Other Choice,\u201d \u201cOldboy\u201d and \u201cThe Handmaiden\u201d), who will adapt the original screenplay by S. Craig Zahler (\u201cDragged Across Concrete,\u201d \u201cBone Tomahawk\u201d). The cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Chinese star Tang Wei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Wagner Moura are set to play three friends in upcoming comedy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":768848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,92995,171,478,67,132,68,130633],"class_list":{"0":"post-768847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-colin-farrell","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ralph-fiennes","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wagner-moura"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116506685030889665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}