Catherine Zeta-Jones hasn’t been around much over the last few years,
but it looks as though she has a flurry
of projects in the works, one of
which puts her opposite Russell Crowe. The No Reservations actress has been signed on to star in the Allen Hughes directed Broken City.
Deadline reports that Zeta-Jones is set to play Russell Crowe’s character’s wife in the upcoming Broken City.
The film, which is in pre-production, stars Mark Wahlberg as a
detective who’s hired by Russell Crowe’s character, who also happens to
be the mayor of New York. Zeta-Jones plays the mayor’s wife, who also
happens to be cheating on her husband. When her secret-boyfriend ends up
dead, Wahlberg’s character does a bit more digging and uncovers a
conspiracy that may involved the mayor.
Broken City begins shooting in New York next month. Zeta-Jones
may have been laying low for a few years, but she appears to be making
up for lost time as she has a number of other films in the works,
including Rock of Ages, directed by Adam Shankman, Playing the Field, which stars Gerard Butler, Judy Greer, and Jessica Biel, and Laying the Favorite, which stars Bruce Willis.
