, Blanchett is currently in talks to portray one of the key female characters, while Cooper is already attached, having replaced a previously committed Leonardo DiCaprio.
Del Toro and co-writer Kim Morgan are adapting the film from William Lindsay Gresham's classic 1946 pulp novel of the same name, which concerns itself with the underbelly of carnival culture, the occult, and good old-fashioned scheming. Without giving too much away, the novel uses the idea of a carnival's geek show as a framing device. That's not another name for "freak show," but rather something truly next level depraved. Usually serving as an opening act, the geek show would involve a person standing on stage while live chickens were released around them. The performer would then be tasked with chasing the chickens, biting their heads off, and swallowing them.
In the film, Cooper is set to play Stanton Carlisle, who starts out as a slight-of-hand magic performer but trains to become a mentalist while working his way up through the circus. Eventually he meets the psychotherapist Lilith Ritter, whom Blanchett would reportedly play should she close the deal. As the noir tale's primary femme fatale, she promptly seduces him under her control.
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