Cruz, Bardem Re-Team For Zeller’s “Bunker”

Oscar winners Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem have officially signed on to re-team on screen for the lead roles in the thriller “Bunker”.

Award-winning French filmmaker Florian Zeller (“The Father”) helms the project in which an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project – building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire.

As the job progresses, his wife begins to question their marriage after 17 years together. The thriller delves into the emotional and moral challenges a couple faces amid the tensions of the world around them and “explores the fears, doubts, and dilemmas that define our era.”

Zeller directs from a screenplay he wrote. Federica Sainte-Rose, Alice Dawson, Fernando Bovaira and Simon de Santiago produce. The filmmaker said in a statement:

“I wanted to tell the story of a marriage and was deeply compelled to work with a real-life couple. I immediately was drawn to the idea of working with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, two of the most gifted actors working today, who also happen to be one of the most iconic couples. I wrote Bunker for them. This film will push the boundaries of narrative and emotional truth, blurring the lines between reality and fiction in a way that feels thrilling and deeply human.”

This marks the pair’s latest collaboration following work together on “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Everybody Knows”.

Source: Deadline

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