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WHO’S IN IT?

Christian Bale (The Fighter), Amy Adams (Arrival), Steve Carell (Anchorman), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Alison Pill (Miss Sloane), Jesse Plemons (Bridge of Spies), Lily Rabe (Pawn Sacrifice), Tyler Perry (Gone Girl), Justin Kirk (Molly’s Game), LisaGay Hamilton (Beautiful Boy), Shea Whigham (Silver Linings Playbook), Eddie Marsan (The World’s End), Stefania LaVie Owen (Krampus), Adam Bartley (Annabelle: Creation), Kirk Bovill (Bending the Rules), Jillian Armenante (Bad Teacher), Bill Camp (Black Mass), Fay Masterson (Fifty Shades Freed), Joseph Beck (Karate Film Café), Alex MacNicoll (The 5th Wave), Aidan Gail (Tales of Halloween), Cailee Spaeny (Bad Times at the El Royale), Karolina Kennedy Durrence (Miracles from Heaven), Violet Hicks (Vanished)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Adam McKay (The Big Short), director, writer, producer; Megan Ellison (Her), Will Ferrell (The Other Guys), Dede Gardner (Moonlight), Jeremy Kleiner (Beautiful Boy), Kevin J. Messick (The Answer Man) and Brad Pitt (12 Years A Slave), producers; Nicholas Britell (Free State of Jones), composer; Greig Fraser (Lion), cinematographer; Hank Corwin (The Tree of Life), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The story of how Dick Cheney (Bale), a bureaucratic Washington insider, gradually became the most powerful person in the world when he was selected as the Vice-President under George W. Bush (Rockwell)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Adam McKay continues to prove he’s a filmmaking force of nature as he brings the irreverent and darkly comic tone from The Big Short to this tale about the most powerful Vice-President in history, as portrayed by an unrecognisable Christian Bale.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 25TH JANUARY 2019

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