FOXCATCHER (Cast News)

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Steve Carell

Steve Carell is set to star in director Bennett Miller'sMoneyball follow-up project, Foxcatcher, reports Variety. The film is the truestory of the murder of an Olympic wrestler by John du Pont. The trade describesthe crime as follows:

"A paranoid schizophrenic and heir to the du Pontchemical fortune, John du Pont built a wrestling training facility called TeamFoxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, where in 1996, he shot and killedOlympic gold medal-winning wrestler David Schultz."

Police never established a motive for the crime, though DuPont died last year in a Pennsylvania prison at the age of 72.

Miller will direct from a script by E. Max Frye and DanFutterman, who wrote Miller's debut feature, Capote.

Filming is expected to start in March