{
  "id": 3764721,
  "title": "‘Bunker’ Director Florian Zeller on Casting Real-Life Couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem for His Marriage-in-Crisis Drama",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/bunker-director-florian-zeller-on-casting-real-life-couple-penelope",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-27T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/bunker-director-florian-zeller-penelope-cruz-javier-bardem-1236841747/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "When he set out to make his third film, “Bunker,” about a slow-burning conflict between two married people who have grown apart, Oscar-winning French director Florian Zeller had Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” in mind. Like Kubrick, who cast then-married Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a couple whose relationship is unraveling, Zeller wanted to […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}