Oliver Stone to Make White Lies with Benicio del Toro
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, last year Oliver Stone revealed that he had “an ambitious narrative film” in the works and had reached an agreement with Atlas Artists to “make that dream a reality.” A few months later, he admitted to having run into difficulties securing financing and claimed that he may have been “blacklisted” after the release of his 2017 documentary Vladimir Putin. Now, however, it appears that European investors have joined his new project.
Stone’s new film will be titled White Lies, with Benicio del Toro set to play the lead role. Written and directed by Stone, the project is scheduled to shoot this fall in Thailand and Italy over the course of four months. At 78 years old, this is expected to be the final feature film of his career as a director.
White Lies spans three generations: a child caught in the aftermath of his parents’ divorce who, as an adult, repeats their mistakes in his own marriage and in his relationship with his son. The more he searches for freedom, the more lost he becomes — until he meets a woman whose life is the exact opposite of his own, setting him on a path toward rediscovering himself.
Del Toro previously collaborated with Stone in the 2012 crime thriller Savages. Stone has not directed another narrative film since Snowden (2016), which received mixed reviews. His filmography also includes W. (2008), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Salvador (1986), Platoon (1987), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994), among many others.
