Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’ Movie: The Cast, What To Expect & Everything Else We Know

French movie manager Damien Chazelle, who helmed the Academy Award-winning movies Whiplash, La La Land, and First Man, is poised to marque a large splash with his adjacent diagnostic film. His upcoming American play epic, Babylon, volition research the Jazz Age of the 1920s, erstwhile Hollywood transitioned from soundless films to talkies. The star-studded ensemble formed volition play fictional characters who are loosely inspired by real-life Hollywood stars from that clip period.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Damien, 37, revealed that helium had the thought for the premise of Babylon when helium was 15 years old. “The basal thought was conscionable to bash a big, epic, multicharacter movie, acceptable successful these aboriginal days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, erstwhile some of these things were coming into what we present deliberation of them as,” helium said. Learn much about Babylon including the merchandise date, the cast, and more, below. 

Damien Chazelle (Photo: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

Release Date: When is Babylon Coming Out?

Babylon is acceptable for a constricted theatrical merchandise connected Christmas Day 2022 (December 25). Then, the movie volition beryllium released worldwide connected January 6, 2023. Plans for the movie with Damien directing were announced successful July 2019, with Lionsgate arsenic the frontrunner to get the rights. But Paramount Pictures ended up securing ownership implicit the task successful November 2019. Filming was initially acceptable to instrumentality spot successful California successful mid-2020, until the COVID-19 pandemic delayed production. Instead, filming began connected July 1, 2021 and wrapped connected October 21, 2021.

Who is successful the Cast of Babylon?

Brad Pitt (Photo: Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, who starred unneurotic successful 2019’s Once Upon a Time successful Hollywood, lead an ensemble formed in Babylon. Brad is playing Jack Conrad, a hard-partying “über-movie star,” according to Damien’s Vanity Fair interview. Damien compared Brad’s quality to precocious actors John Gilbert, Clark Gable, and Douglas Fairbanks. Margot is playing Nellie LaRoy, a “scrappy aspiring actress” who is caller to Hollywood. Damien compared Margot’s quality to precocious actresses Clara Bow, Jeanne Eagels, Joan Crawford, and Alma Rubens. Brad signed onto the movie successful January 2020, followed by Margot who confirmed her engagement successful March 2021. Emma Stone was reportedly primitively successful the premix to beryllium the pb pistillate star.

Tobey Maguire will prima arsenic fictional quality James McKay. Tobey is besides an enforcement shaper connected the film. Newcomer Diego Calva will play Manny Torres, a Mexican migrant and Hollywood outsider. The remainder of the cast, who volition each play fictional characters, includes Jean Smart, Katherine Waterston, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Spike Jonze, Lukas Haas, Eric Roberts, Li Jun Li, Chloe Fineman, Jeff Garlin, Jovan Adepo, Rory Scovel, Phoebe Tonkin, Troy Metcalf, and Flea of Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The Handmaid’s Tale star Max Minghella is the lone histrion who is playing a real-life idiosyncratic in Babylon, that being precocious movie shaper Irving Thalberg.

Margot Robbie (Photo: Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S./Shutterstock)

Who is the Creative Team Behind Babylon?

Damien Chazelle is directing and writing Babylon, his 4th diagnostic film. His archetypal movie was the 2014 intelligence drama Whiplash with Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Whiplash. Then, helium helmed the romanticist philharmonic comedy La La Land with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Damien won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, for La La Land. His 3rd diagnostic film, First Man, was a biographical play movie with Ryan Gosling playing Neil Armstrong. At the worldwide container office, Whiplash grossed $49 million, La La Land grossed $448 million, and First Man grossed $105 million.

Olivia Hamilton, Marc Platt, and Matt Plouffe are the enforcement producers of Babylon, alongside Tobey Maguire. Marc, who is the begetter of histrion Ben Platt, also produced La La Land. The remainder of the Babylon production squad includes cinematographer Linus Sandgren, euphony composer Justin Hurwitz, and exertion Tom Cross. They’ve each collaborated with Damien connected his past films. Marc Platt Productions and Material Pictures are the accumulation companies on Babylon, portion the distributor is Paramount Pictures.

H2: What is Babylon About?

Tobey Maguire (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)

Babylon is not a musical, nor is it based connected a book. Back successful 2019, a draft of the film’s screenplay really leaked online. It’s unclear however antithetic the last screenplay is from the leaked draft. In his Sept. 2022 interrogation with Vanity Fair, Damien shared immoderate large teasers astir the film. He explained however helium wanted to item however Hollywood’s modulation during the Jazz Age came astatine a price. “Everything is shifting underneath people’s feet, and I became truly fascinated by the quality outgo of disruption astatine that magnitude, astatine a clip erstwhile determination was nary roadworthy map, erstwhile everything was conscionable caller and wild,” helium told the outlet.

Damien talked astir the main characterJack Conrad who is played by Brad Pitt. Damien said astir Jack, “He’s reaching a constituent successful his beingness successful his vocation wherever he’s starting to look backmost and starting to wonderment what’s ahead.” He besides explained however helium differentiated the film’s look from La La Land and Whiplash. “It was truly a chaotic West play for these people, this assemblage of characters, arsenic they emergence and fall, rise, fall, emergence again, autumn again,” helium said.

Damien told Vanity Fair that creating Babylon was “the hardest thing” he’s done successful his vocation frankincense far. “Just the logistics of it, the fig of characters, the standard of the acceptable pieces, the span of clip that the movie charts—it each conspired to marque it peculiarly challenging, but it was a situation that was beauteous breathtaking to instrumentality on,” helium said.