Ralph Fiennes Joins Terry Gilliam’s Mr. Vertigo Adaptation

Ralph Fiennes has signed on to star in Terry Gilliam’s film adaptation of Mr. Vertigo. The Playlist reports that Gilliam is making the film his next project and that Fiennes (Spectre, The Grand Budapest Hotel) has been cast in the film.

The book is written by Paul Auster and is described as follows:

“Walter Claireborne Rawley, renowned nationwide as “Walt the Wonder Boy,” is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by a mysterious Hungarian Jew, Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. Master Yehudi brings Walt into a Kansas circus troupe consisting of Mother Sioux and Aesop, a young black genius. The vaudeville act takes them across a vast and vibrant country, through mythic Americana where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob. Walt’s rise to fame and fortune mirrors America’s own coming of age, and his resilience, like that of the nation, is challenged over and over and over again.”