Christian Bale Movie Updates

Christian Bale is bracing to climb Mount Everest. The Welsh actor is in talks to star in “Everest,” a film about two deadly days on the world's tallest mountain that Baltasar Kormakur is in talks to direct for Universal and Working Title, multiple individuals close to the project told TheWrap.

The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale is in early negotiations to star in Todd Field's The Creed of Violence.

“We’d always wanted the title Lawless,” producer Lucy Fisher told EW, “but it was always unavailable to us.” That’s because the only-very-recently prolific Malick had dibs on the name for one of his upcoming projects, of which little is known except that it boasts a formidable cast, including Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Natali ...

Christian Bale has finally found his follow-up to The Dark Knight Rises, as he's in talks to star in Relativity Media's Out of the Furnace, which is heating up with Crazy Heart helmer Scott Cooper writing and directing.

Christian Bale has passed on Darren Aronofsky's Noah, and the filmmaker is now targeting Michael Fassbender for the title role.

Now that New Regency closed a deal to fully fund the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed The Revenant, the Biutiful helmer has set his sights on Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn to play the two leads in the screen adaptation of the Michael Punke novel.

I’ve learned that Warner Bros was hoping to start production on Clint Eastwood’s musical remake of A Star Is Born as early as February 2012. But now insiders tell me it “could push” because Beyoncé announced her pregnancy tonight at MTV’s VMAs.

Vulture hears that Aronofsky is in talks with Christian Bale about possibly starring in his take on Noah's Ark, to help secure studio backing for it. Presumably, Aronofsky wants Bale for the lead, even though Noah was 600 years old when the Great Flood hit, and Bale is only 37.

Following the success of Liam Neeson starrer "Unknown," Joel Silver's Dark Castle and Europe's StudioCanal are reteaming on Afghanistan-set action-thriller "The Last Photograph," with Christian Bale and Sean Penn in talks to star.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is attached to star in a rights package that CAA is shopping today that will revive The Terminator, one of Hollywood's most iconic scifi franchises. The agency is dropping the package on studios this afternoon. I'm told that already, Universal, Sony and Lionsgate, and CBS Films are looking hard at the packa ...

Javier Bardem is close to sealing his deal with Universal Pictures to play gunslinger Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower, the mammoth adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series that’ll span three movies and a limited run TV series in between each film.

I'm told that Bardem has officially been offered the lead role by director Ron Howard and Universal Pictures. While formal negotiations haven't yet begun, there's a high level of enthusiasm internally that they've got their cowboy.

Christian Bale will star in Zhang Yimou's upcoming 600 million yuan ($90.2 million) Nanjing Heroes about the Nanjing Massacre, China's most famous director said at a press conference Wednesday.

Tom Hanks may be the first actor to board Paramount’s "Sleeping Dogs," Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to "The Hurt Locker." The project was previously known as "Triple Frontier" and reunites Bigelow with her "Hurt Locker" scribe Mark Boal.

Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz have joined the cast of Terrence Malick's next movie, individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.

In his ever-cryptic way, the Cog informs me that Christian Bale is set to star in The Last Photograph, based on an original idea from Zach Snyder (300).