How hard could it be for them each to meet with an “accident?” With the unique advantage of being unknown to any of them, Becket penetrates the weird and twisted lives of his super-rich kin amongst frat boys, hipster artists and reality TV stars. There are precisely nine Rothchild family members who stand between him and his fortune including Whitelaw (Gibson), his sinister grandfather. All grown up and armed with charisma, intelligence and a flair for opportunity, it does not take long for Becket to fully grasp the immense gap between his situation and the richest 1% which should be his birth right. The bastard child of a mother, who in eloping with a jazz musician, was cast out from the Rothchild family and its vast fortune. The film will go into production in New York.Īlso Read: Mel Gibson and Tye Sheridan to Star in Black List Thriller 'Black Flies'Īccording to the official logline, Becket Rothchild (LaBeouf) was never given a fair lot in life. Unified Pictures is producing, and Keith Kjarval and Tyler Jackson will produce alongside Black Box Management principals Lowell Shapiro and Mike Dill, who represent the writer. “Rothchild” is based on a 2014 Black List script by John Patton Ford.

CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights, and HanWay Films is handling international rights. The film is being introduced to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival. Baird (“Stan & Ollie”) that takes on the world of New York’s super rich class. U.S.Shia LaBeouf and Mel Gibson are set to star in “Rothchild,” a black comedy from director Jon S. LaBeouf, who has a Jewish mother and had a bar mitzvah, has since converted to Christianity. Reports on the “Rothchild” film do not mention if the family involved is actually Jewish or if the title is a nod to the Rothschilds in name only. They are often placed at the center of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that claim Jews exert influence over many sectors of society, such as banking and the media. Members of the wealthy European Rothschild family are descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, an 18th-century German banker whose five sons launched banking dynasties in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna and Milan. Gibson infamously claimed in a drunken rant that Jews were responsible for “all the wars in the world,” and promoted anti-Semitic stereotypes in his 2004 blockbuster film “ The Passion of the Christ.” Since then he has worked to get back into the Jewish community’s good graces, even donating to a Holocaust survivor aid project.

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