“Unbroken” star Jack O’Connell and Oscar winner Julia Roberts are in talks to join George Clooney in director Jodie Foster‘s financial thriller “Money Monster,” multiple individuals familiar with the TriStar project have told TheWrap.
Representatives for TriStar, O’Connell and Roberts did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Clooney stars as Lee Gates, a bombastic financial TV personality who offers up stock advice on his hit show “Money Monster.”
O’Connell is being eyed to play Kyle Budwell, a blue-collar worker who’s fed up with being exploited by the sharks on Wall Street. With a baby on the way, he feels he has no choice but to take Lee hostage on the air in order to increase a stock’s value and expose the corporate crooks who have been deceiving the American public.