We’ve two alternate designs (one UK and one US albeit rather similar) for Director David O. Russell’s forthcoming crime caper AMERICAN HUSTLE. The all-star film sees him reuniting with a number of his cast from his terrific Oscar-winning efforts THE FIGHTER and SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK in the fact-based story centred around the controversial Abscam operation which accidentally uncovered widespread political corruption following an FBI sting in the early 1980s.
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell’s previous films, American Hustle defies genre, hinging on raw emotion, and life and death stakes.
The superb AMERICAN HUSTLE ensemble includes Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Robert De Niro, Jack Huston, Louis C.K., Michael Peña and Anthony Zerbe. It’s slated to hit US cinemas from the 13th December and the UK 20th December.
Source: Sony Pictures
