Christopher Plummer to Star in New Thriller REMEMBER

Variety reports that theater veteran Christopher Plummer has joined the cast of Atom Egoyan's upcoming thriller REMEMBER. The actor joins previously announced cast members Martin Landau, Dean Norris, Bruno Ganz, Heinz Lieven and Gunter Lamprecht.

Written by Benjamin August, the film will combine "a dark chapter of modern history with a contemporary mission of revenge."

Said Plummer in a statement, "I am looking forward immensely to be working once again with Atom Egoyan and Robert Lantos - this time, on a story which promises to be at once shocking, arresting and powerful beyond measure."

Christopher Plummer has enjoyed 60 years as one of theatre's most respected actors and is a veteran of over 100 motion pictures. He began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English in Montreal. While there, he also had the good fortune to work with the great Russian theatre guru Fyodor Komisarjevsky.

After Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954), he went on to star in many celebrated productions on Broadway and London's West End. He has won two Tony Awards - for the musical "Cyrano" and for "Barrymore" (which played to acclaim at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1998) - plus seven nominations, his latest for his King Lear (2004) and for his Clarence Darrow in "Inherit the Wind" (2007).

He is a former leading member of The Royal National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier and the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall where he won London's Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in "Becket" (1961). In 1968, sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada (an honorary knighthood). He has also led Canada's Stratford Festival in its formative years under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and his mentor Michael Langham, and again recently under Des McAnuff's regime. He is widely recognized as one of the finest classical actors of his time.

Since Sidney Lumet introduced him to the screen in "Stage Struck" (1958), his range of notable films include "The Man Who Would be King," "Battle of Britain," "Waterloo," "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," "Twelve Monkeys" and the 1965 Oscar-winning "The Sound of Music." More recently, his films have included the Oscar-nominated "The Insider," (in the role of Mike Wallace which won him the National Critics Award), the Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind," "Must Love Dogs," "The Man in the Chair," "Syriana," "The Inside Man," the title role in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" directed by Terry Gilliam, and the highly praised animated films "Up," "9" and "My Dog Tulip." In 2010 he played the great novelist Tolstoy in "The Last Station," directed by Michael Hoffman, where he received an Academy Award nomination. He followed that up in 2011with another nomination and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in "Beginners," written and directed by Mike Mills. He also appeared in David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" that same year. In 2013 he completed "Elsa and Fred," directed by Michael Radford in which he stars opposite Shirley MacLaine, and "Imagine" opposite Al Pacino and Annette Bening from writer/directorDAN FOGELMAN.

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