Rachel McAdams Has Probably Booked Her Next Gig

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Rachel McAdams is in talks for a new role staring alongside Will Smith.

Rachel McAdams has been fully assimilated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that hasn’t taken any sort of toll on her career. One of the dangers of joining a superhero franchise is only really having time to continually appear in said franchise outside of a few smaller roles. With McAdams, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Yet.

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According to The Wrap, Rachel McAdams is close to sealing the deal to co-star with Will Smith in Collatera Beauty. Not just Will Smith, as Collateral Beauty’s cast is filled with notable actors: Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, and Naomie Haris, and Michael Pena are all attached. That’s quite a roster of stars.

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Collateral Beauty  is about an advertising executive, played by Will Smith, who suffers a tragedy. His co-workers then work on a way to turn his life around. It sounds like the sort of life-affirming movie that was tailor-made for Will Smith. According to The Wrap’s sources, Rachel McAdams will finish up Doctor Strange and then immediately move on to Collateral Beauty.

The plot synopsis doesn’t spark much enthusiasm, but one of the people behind it does. The film will be produced by Michael Sugar from Anonymous Content — he also produced the excellent Spotlight. Anonymous Content has its fingers in many pies, and most of them have been worth experiencing.

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It’s much too early to tell if Collateral Beauty will be just as worthy. Consider us cautiously optimistic.