Last year was something of a rest period for Jessica Chastain, with only the horror film Mama hitting theaters. But that's all about to change in 2014 as Christopher Nolan's Interstellar arrives, plus the twin-bill romance The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. And that doesn't count filming on Guillermo Del Toro's Crimson Peak. But she's also got two more movies on the way in Liv Ullman's Miss Julie and A Most Violent Year from All is Lost director, J.C. Chandor, and we've now got first looks at both of them.
First up is Miss Julie, Ullmann's adaptation of August Strindberg's 19th century play about the flirtatious affair between the aristocratic Julie and her ambitious valet, with issues of power and class driving their love/hate relationship. Chastain gets to spend some steamy time with Colin Farrell, while Samantha Morton co-stars as Farrell's fiance. There's no release date yet but maybe we'll catch Miss Julie on the art house scene.
After hitting it big with Margin Call and All is Lost, J.C. Chandor isn't letting the grass grow under his feet. He's already hard at work on A Most Violent Year, a thriller starring Chastain, Oscar Isaac, Albert Brooks, David Oyelowo, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Alfred Molina. Set in 1981, one of the most violent years in New York City history, the film follows an immigrant family trying to expand their business in the face of rampant violence and corruption that threatens to destroy them. Bradford Young, cinematographer on Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Pariah, also filmed this so we know the blonde Chastain will look more gorgeous than usual. Expect A Most Violent Year to arrive this fall.
