Source: IGN
Casting is continuing apace on the eagerly anticipated gangster film Public Enemies, which recounts the story of the Dillinger gang — the notorious bank robbers who brought their deadly brand of illegal skulduggery to depression-era America.
Johnny Depp was already set to play Dillinger himself, while Christian Bale has been cast as Melvin Bale – the FBI agent who tried to bring him down.
Now, according to Variety, director Micheal Mann (Heat, Miami Vice) has signed up five new faces for the project.
Dillinger’s gang has now been cast, with Channing Tatum (also the latest addition to G.I. Joe), Blade’s Stephen Dorff, Giovanni “Phoebe’s brother in Friends” Ribisi and Jason Clarke all set to play the criminal ensemble.
Marion Cotillard, meanwhile, who many consider an Oscar shoo-in for her performance as French warbler Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, will play Billie Frechette, Dillinger’s lover.
The film, based on the best selling non-fiction book of the same name, will begin shooting in Chicago on March 10.