This article is about the upcoming Coen brothers film. For the Anthony Michael Hall film, see Hail Caesar (1994 film). For the AC/DC song, see Hail Caesar (song).
Hail, Caesar! is an upcoming comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is set to starJosh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, and Ralph Fiennes. Hail, Caesar! follows Eddie Mannix (Brolin), a "fixer" working in the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s, trying to discover what happened to a cast member who vanishes during filming
First revealed in 2004, the film was originally set to take place in the 1920s and follow actors performing a play about ancient Rome. The Coens shelved the idea until late 2013, when they stated it was in development. Principal photography began in November 2014 in Los Angeles, California. The film will open the Berlin Film Festival on February 11, 2016.
- Josh Brolin as Eddie Mannix, a "fixer" who keeps actors' scandals out of the press
- George Clooney as movie star Baird Whitlock,a name in reference to the President of Bard College at Simon's Rock during the years that the Coen Brothers attended.
- Alden Ehrenreich as Tobey, an actor and one of Mannix's clients
- Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Lorenz, a film director
- Jonah Hill as Joseph Silverman
- Scarlett Johansson as an Esther Williams-type actress who suddenly becomes pregnant as her film is about to go into production
- Frances McDormand as a film editor
- Tilda Swinton as Hedda Hopper, a gossip columnist
- Channing Tatum as Burt, an actor and one of Mannix's clients.
- Christopher Lambert as Arne Slessum, a filmmaker who has an affair with the female star of Hail, Caesar!, the film within a film
- Fred Melamed as a Communist screenwriter
- Patrick Fischler as Benedict, a Communist screenwriter
- David Krumholtz as a Communist screenwriter
- Fisher Stevens as a Communist screenwriter
- Alex Karpovsky as Mr. Smitrovich
- Clancy Brown as an actor in Hail, Caesar!
- Robert Picardo
- Emily Beecham as Dierdre
- Kate Morgan Chadwick as an actress in Hail, Caesar!
- Dolph Lundgren as a Soviet "submarine commander
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