Jared Leto negotiating to portray serial killer in The Little Things alongside fellow Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek
Jared Leto is negotiating with Warner Bros. to appear in The Little Things, a crime drama that already boasts fellow Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek in its cast.
The 47-year-old actor-musician, insiders told Variety, would play a serial killer in the movie written and directed by The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock.
The storyline of film is set in Kern County, California, and sees Washington playing Deke, a deputy sheriff who pairs with a detective named Baxter to apprehend the killer.
In the works: Jared Leto, 47, is negotiating with Warner Bros. to appear in The Little Things, a crime drama that already boasts fellow Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek in its cast
While Deke has a keen eye for detail, he has a troubling past and a penchant for working outside of the rules that leaves Baxter with his own internal conflict.
Leto has experience in darker roles, having played the Joker in 2016's Suicide Squad; John Lennon's murderer Mark David Chapman in the 2007 film Chapter 27; and the victim of a serial killer (played by Christian Bale) in the 2000 movie American Psycho.
The Dallas Buyers Club Oscar winner has past appeared in a number of films for the studio, including Blade Runner 2049 and Suicide Squad.
The Bossier City, Louisiana native has completed work on other upcoming projects including the Marvel adaptation Morbius, as well as producing A Day in the Life of America, a doc about the country on July 4.
Talented: The actor-musician was snapped performing with his band Thirty Second To Mars last month in Rome
A-list cast: Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek are already attached to the project
Washington inked onto the film in March, according to the outlet, which noted that he chose the project to do next over a stint directing the movie Journal of Jordan for Sony.
Malek was initially linked to the project in May, and is slated to begin work on it once he's done shooting the villain role in Bond 25.
Production is set to commence on The Little Things this fall, according to the outlet.
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