Orlando Bloom is continuing to line up projects as he has been absent from the big screen since starring in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End in 2007. The latest project is Main Street in which he is joined by Andrew McCarthy, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson and Colin Firth.
The film marks Horton Foote’s (To Kill a Mockingbird) newest and final screenplay as he died earlier this month of natural causes. John Doyle will be making his directorial debut as the project is expected to begin filming this April.
The drama centers on a group of people in a small town in North Carolina whose lives are shaken up when a stranger arrives. Bloom will play a small-town policeman, while McCarthy will play a Lothario business manager.
On top of this film Bloom is currently filming Sympathy for Delicious with Mark Ruffalo making his directorial debut and he is also set to star in The Cross for Andrew Niccol with Olga Kurylenko and Vincent Cassel joining him. The Cross is set in a border town in the near future. Bloom plays a man seeking to cross a mysterious border, something no one else has achieved; Cassel will play the sentry who wants to stop him.
