Christian Bale in Talks to Play Dick Cheney in Biopic -<br />By BROOKS BARNESAPRIL 5, 2017<br />LOS ANGELES — The Dark Knight himself, Christian Bale, is in talks to play the lead in a Dick Cheney biopic<br />that Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment hope to begin shooting in September.<br />Co-founded by Brad Pitt, who will serve as a producer on the Cheney film, Plan<br />B has been behind such Oscar winners as “Moonlight” and “12 Years a Slave.”<br />A version of this article appears in print on April 6, 2017, on Page B4 of the New York<br />edition with the headline: Bale in Talks to Play Lead in a Biopic About Cheney.<br />Also in talks for the still-untitled film about Mr. Cheney, the former vice president, are Steve Carell, who would play Donald Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary,<br />and Amy Adams, who would play Mr. Cheney’s wife, Lynne.<br />Mr. Bale, 43, is a three-time Oscar nominee and a one-time winner (for his crack-addled boxer in “The Fighter”),<br />but he is best known for playing Batman in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy.
