Philip Seymour Hoffman to Join CHILD 44?

According to Deadline.com, Philip Seymour Hoffman is in negotiations for CHILD 44, directed by Daniel Espinosa for Summit Entertainment.

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Hoffman would join previously cast Tom Hardy, Roomi Rapace, Gary Oldman and Joel Kinnaman. Based on the book by Tom Rob Smith, the script is written by Richard Price and centers on a member of the Soviet military police investigating child murders in the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

Hoffman last appeared on screen in The Master, for which he received an Oscar nomination, and will next appear in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, A Most Wanted Man and God's Pocket. Past film credits include: Moneyball, The Ides of March, Jack Goes Boating, The Invention of Lying, Mary and Max, Doubt, Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, Capote, Along Came Polly, Cold Mountain, Red Dragon, Punch-Drunk Love, Almost Famous, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Big Lebowski, Twister, Leap of Faith and more.

Hoffman most recently appeared on Broadway in Death of a Salesman in 2012. His other performances on the Great White Way include Long Day's Journey Into Night and True West, as well as off-Broadway's Jack Goes Boating, The Seagull, The Author's Voice & Imagining Brad, Shopping and fing, Defying Gravity and The Shriker. Hoffman also directed off-Broadway's The Little Flower of East Orange, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Glory of Living and Jesus Hopped the A Train.