Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chloe Grace Moretz to star in White Town

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play  Jim Jones in a biopic of the notorious cult leader who set up Jonestown, a huge South American commune. From Robin Hood to Alexander the Great, every so often we see competing projects in Hollywood as different studios race to get their take on a definitive character to the screen. FilmNation has announced that itā€™s financing a biopic of the Jonestown massacre, a 1974 mass suicide invoked by cult leader, Jim Jones. The project, which is set to shoot this spring joins MGMā€™s planned take in the same events, already in development with Leonardo DiCaprio attached. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, DiCaprioā€™s co-star in 2010ā€™s Inception, is set to play Jones in FilmNationā€™s take on one of the worst mass murder/suicides in recorded history. The actor, who has been doing some sterling work on the smaller screen of late, will be joined by another former co-star, Chloe Grace Moretz. The duo played siblings in 2009ā€™s (500) Days of Summer but will now take on a rather different dynamic, with Gordon-Levitt as cult leader Jones, whilst Grace Moretz will play Debbie Layton, one of the few indoctrinated members of Jonesā€™ cult to break free of his control. According to The Hollywood ReporterSwedish filmmaker Anne Sewitsky, who helmed A Very British Scandal, will be directing. No other casting details have been announced yet, but with plans to get the production in motion, weā€™re certainly curious to see the impact this has upon DiCaprioā€™s rival project. Weā€™ll let you know more as we hear it. ā€” Thank you for visiting! If youā€™d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website: Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here. Buy our Film Stories and Film Stories Junior print magazines here. Become a Patron here.
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