Donald Sutherland Joins Cast of THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY

Donald Sutherland has joined the cast of Giuseppe Capotondi's The Burnt Orange Heresy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sutherland will lstar as an enigmatic painter who becomes the target of an art-world heist.

The movie, which also stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Mick Jagger, is based on the book of the same name by Charles Willeford. The film's script is written by Scott B. Smith.

In the film, new lovers James Figueras (Bang), an ambitious art critic, and Berenice Hollis (Debecki) travel to Lake Como to meet the wealthy art dealer and collector Joseph Cassidy (Jagger), who is obsessed with reclusive painter Jerome Debney (Sutherland). Cassidy offers Figueras a rare opportunity to meet Debney in exchange for stealing a new masterpiece from the artist's studio. As the couple spend more and more time with Debney, they realize nothing is as it seems and the operation soon spins out of control. But Figueras will do almost anything, even commit murder, to further his career.

The Burnt Orange Heresy is Capotondi's second film after 2009's The Double Hour. He recently directed episodes Netflix's Italian mafia show Suburra.

Sutherland can be seen next in Ad Astra with Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. He also just finished shooting The Leisure Seeker.

Read the original article on The Hollywood Reporter.

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