14 DAY TRIAL // Bradley Cooper has landed an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the 2014 race for his role as an FBI agent in “American Hustle” and, at the same time, has managed to win over all film critics with his convincing portrayal, but he’s definitely not going idle.
If anything, he’s using this boost in popularity to get even more projects. Deadline reports that Warner Bros. has acquired the rights for a new gangster movie that he will produce and star in.
Called “American Blood,” it’s described as “a 50 page proposal for a crime story by New Zealand-based bestselling author Ben Sanders for Macmillan Entertainment,” with Cooper “attached to star and produce through his 22nd & Indiana banner.”
The story, which is meant as a first installment in a series of novels, tells the story of “Marshall Grade, an undercover NYPD officer turned mob informant. While living in the witness protection program in New Mexico, he is pulled into a dangerous investigation, which causes his past in New York to get wind of his whereabouts,” Deadline notes.
Warners wants Cooper for the lead. Assuming conflicting schedules will prevent him from starring in the film, he will probably just produce it.
Having seen Cooper in “American Hustle,” it would probably be a shame if this didn’t work out: he’s definitely emerging as one of the most promising, versatile, and talented actors of the moment.