Jude Law to Play Vladimir Putin in New Movie 'The Wizard of the Kremlin'

Jude Law‘s next movie role has been revealed.

In a new interview, the 52-year-old Oscar-nominated actor revealed that he will be playing Russian President Vladimir Putin in French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ new movie The Wizard of Kremlin.

Keep reading to find out more…“I say that hesitatingly because I haven’t really started work on it yet,” Jude shared with Deadline. “I mean, I have, but at the moment it looks like an Everest to climb, so I’m in the foothills looking up thinking, ‘Oh Christ, what have I said?’ That’s often how I feel whilst I say yes. I was going, ‘Oh God, how am I going to do this?’ But anyway, that’s for me to sort out.”

The Wizard of Kremlin, which is based on Giuliano da Empoli’s bestselling novel of the same name, “opens in Russia, in the early 1990’s, in the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. In a new world that promises freedom and flirts with chaos, a young artist-turned-TV producer, Vadim Baranov, unexpectedly becomes the spin doctor of a promising member of the FSB (ex-KGB), Vladimir Putin.”

Paul Dano will be playing Vadim Baranov. Alicia Vikander also stars in the movie.

In a recent interview, Jude talked about going full-frontal in his next movie Eden.