We found out from Erik back in February that Ellen Page is becoming a mom for the upcoming weird psychological thriller Peacock, which will co-star Cillian Murphy. Now Variety reports that three more have joined the cast -- Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman, and Josh Lucas. (Who they will play has not been revealed.) This film is sounding better by the minute!If you remember back, this story focuses on Peacock, Nebraska, where Murphy's character has a split personality -- a man and wife. That's not quite as weird as the fact that he fools the whole town into believing that there are two people. (I guess this is some sort of Clark Kent/Superman thing where no one notices that they're never at the same place at once.) Anyway, Page plays a young mom "who holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities."
Oh, but it gets better. The description with this story says: "a quiet bank clerk's (Murphy) life is shattered by a train crashing into his back yard revealing a woman living there." (Page, perhaps?) A train crashes onto his lawn? Revealing a woman living there? Umm... Is there some bomb shelter? Is his back yard just really, really cluttered? I don't get it. Whatever the case, it sounds like an insanely interesting story.
1. As far as we can tell, the woman secretly living with Murphy's character is... Murphy. His alter ego -- his "wife" -- is revealed by the emergency created by the train crash.
Also, one of the trades revealed that Sarandon plays the mayor's wife who runs the women's shelter, that Pullman plays Murphy's boss at the bank, and Lucas plays a cop who's Murphy's friend.
This is looking to be a fascinating movie.
Posted at 5:19PM on May 6th 2008 by The CillianSite Collective