The Dark Tower’s Nikolaj Arcel to direct Matt Damon’s Robert Kennedy movie

By Sam Barsanti | July 20, 2017 | 12:21am

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Director Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower is about a legendary hero on a nearly impossible quest to save all of reality from an evil wizard, but it looks like Arcel’s next film will be slightly less fantastical. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’ll be directing Matt Damon in RFK, a long-in-the-works biopic about Robert F. Kennedy. Damon is set to play the former presidential candidate, who was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968, with Arcel writing the script.

No other actors are attached to RFK yet, but hopefully the movie doesn’t spend too much time putting together a big-name cast at the expense of virtually everything else in the production, which is the pit that Emilio Estevez’s Bobby fell into way back in 2006. Or maybe Arcel should just get the same cast (including Martin Sheen, Shia LaBeouf, Lindsay Lohan, Anthony Hopkins, and Demi Moore) and make his movie a weird prequel/sequel.