Patton Oswalt Joins Tom Hanks and Emma Watson in Tech Thriller THE CIRCLE
As if the cast for James Ponsoldt's The Circle wasn't great enough already, Deadline reports that Patton Oswalt has joined Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, and Karen Gillan in the upcoming tech thriller.
Here's the full synopsis:
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.
As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world — even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
Oswalt is set to play "Tom Stenton, the tight-lipped, Italian suit-wearing, tough-dealing throwback to a 1980s Wall Street trader who commands respect. He’s one of the Three Wise Men who are founders of the conglom, alongside characters played by Hanks and Boyega." This is obviously a mega-talented cast, and with Ponsoldt having directed affecting indies like Smashed, The Spectacular Now, and The End of The Tour, I'm eager to see what he can do with something that leans a bit more into genre territory.
Filming starts this month.