Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike starring in Scott Cooper’s Hostiles

Gone Girl actor Rosamund Pike is in negotiations to co-star with Christian Bale in Black Mass director Scott Cooper’s Western Hostiles.

Gone Girl actor Rosamund Pike is in negotiations to co-star with Christian Bale in Scott Cooper’s Western Hostiles.

Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne and Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne from Gone Girl.

Cooper will write and direct and also produce with Black Mass producer John Lesher along with Ken Kao, reported Variety.

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Set in 1892, Hostiles tells the story of a legendary Army captain (Bale), who agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to tribal lands.

Making the harrowing and perilous journey from an isolated Army outpost in New Mexico to the grasslands of Montana, the former rivals encounter a young widow (Pike) whose family was murdered on the plains.

Rosamund Pike in her Oscar nominated role as Amy in Gone Girl.

Together, they must join forces to overcome the punishing landscape and hostile Comanche tribes that they encounter along the way.

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Production is set to begin in July. Sources say Cooper was drawn to Pike, 37, after seeing her in Massive Attack’s music video Voodoo in My Blood, which recently caused an internet stir.

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