Javier Bardem to Star in A MOST VIOLENT YEAR and THE GUNMAN

According to Deadline, Javier Bardem has signed on for J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year and Pierre Morel's The Gunman, with Sean Penn. A Most Violent Year will begin filming in NYC this fall.

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A Most Violent Year's plot is being kept pretty secret, but in the action thriller The Gunman, an international spy must clear his name in order to save himself from the organization that he used to work for. The Gunman is based on the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, with a screenplay by Pete Travis.

Bardem will next appear in The Counselor. Other film credits include Skyfall, To the Wonder, Eat Pray Love, Biutiful, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Love in the Time of Cholera, No Country for Old Men, The Sea Inside, Mondays in the Sun and more.