Fili is Kirk Douglas Trumbo – Reuters

MADRID, Sept. 23 (EUROPA PRESS)

Dean O’Gorman , known for his role as Fili in The Hobbit,
will play the actor Kirk Douglas in the biopic of famed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston the unforgettable Walter White Breakin Bad .

The film will focus on the eventful career of Trumbo since its inception and will be directed by the director and producer Jay Roach, who directed films like Meet the Parents and Austin Powers:. The Spy Who Shagged Me

The cast will be headed by the winner of a Golden Globe for her performance in Breakin Bad Bryan Cranston, who will play Dalton Trumbo ; Actress Diane Lane ( Under the Tuscan Sun ) will play his wife; Michael Stuhlbarg will play the actor Edward G. Robinson; Oscar winner Helen Mirren will be the heart journalist Hedda Hopper; Elle Fanning as Nikola Trumbo; David James Elliot and play the Hollywood icon John Wayne.

In this star-studded cast, which also will be other familiar faces like John Goodman, Peter Mackenzie and Roger Bart Dean O’Gorman is now added that, according to The Hollywood Reporter will play another Hollywood myth. Kirk Douglas

Douglas was an important figure for Trumbo , as besides protagonist was also a producer of Spartacus, one of the unforgettable indents writer, pursued by the witch-hunt, had to sign a pseudonym.

John McNamara is the author of the script for the story This man saw in 1951, when he was one of the most famous and highest paid writers in the world with films like The sun rises every morning or Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was sent to prison for refusing to answer questions of the Committee on Un-American Activities.

swelled the Hollywood blacklist during the Witch Hunt McCarthy and after his release after 11 months imprisonment was exiled to Mexico where, under a pseudonym, became a prolific and brilliant that even before his captivity writer.

Under pseudonym wrote scripts tapes Exodus or said Spartacus and won two Oscars for the libretti of Roman Holiday (1953) and Bravo (1956). The authorship of the scripts, and therefore both statuettes, they will be recognized by the Academy of Hollywood years later (one shortly before he died and another posthumously).

From exile, he was a notable activist against Witch Hunt and one of the main drivers of the battle that ended much of Hollywood keeping with the American authorities and ended with the blacklist.

In 1971 Trumbo in his only directorial effort, led to the big screen his own novel Johnny Got His Gun (Johnny Got His Gun) an antiwar argued that won awards at the Cannes Film Festival.